Word: dershowitz
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...first, by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, was prompted by the release of Steven Spielberg’s film “Munich,” which portrays Israel’s efforts to avenge the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games by the terrorist group Black September...
...Dershowitz attacked Spielberg’s film for what he saw as its confusion about the causes of terrorism. Dershowitz wrote that Spielberg attempts to link the Israelis who tracked and killed the Black September terrorists and future terror attacks against Western nations, and that Spielberg was mistaken in his suggestion that the “counterterrorism only incites more terrorism...
...trouble with this ‘cycle of violence’ perspective is that it confuses cause and effect,” Dershowitz wrote in the op-ed. “The period immediately preceding Munich was plagued by airline terrorism [and]...this long pattern of high-publicity, low-risk hijackings is what encouraged Black September to up the ante by infiltrating the Olympic Village in Munich...
...Dershowitz continued that “terrorism works because it is successful, and success begets repetition.” This idea forms the basis of his 2002 book “Why Terrorism Works,” a book that drew fire from many civil libertarians because it advocated torture of terror suspects in certain instances.* [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...market they frankly cannot afford. The tenants don’t own the property and have no standing to whine about walking an extra block to the bus. Or anything really.7. Tactless law professors. Closely following the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz decided to pen a vicious piece calling the late Justice a “Republican thug” and accusing him of participating in bigoted acts like “heil-Hitlering” in front of Jewish students while at law school. This story has not been independently corroborated...