Word: finkelstein
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...Finkelstein, who is in his sixth year at DePaul, said in an interview yesterday that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz—perhaps his most outspoken critic—was responsible for leading the effort to deny him tenure...
DePaul University Assistant Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, who has been no stranger to controversy in years past, will face difficulty gaining tenure this summer after the dean of DePaul’s College of Arts and Sciences overrode recommendations made at the departmental and college review level...
...would call it, for about ten weeks, a relentless campaign,” Finkelstein said, adding that comments made by Dershowitz amounted to “character assassination.” “Had there been no outside pressure, I’m fully confident that I would make it through” the tenure process, Finkelstein said...
...Finkelstein alleges that Dershowitz is trying to discredit him with baseless claims to draw attention away from strong criticisms that Finkelstein has leveled against Dershowitz’s work on the Israel-Palestine conflict...
Indeed, if anyone is to bring peace and an end to Israeli-Palestinian violence it is men like Professor Finkelstein and President Jimmy Carter who have the guts to point out some atrocious policies and human rights violations that Israel has and continues to conduct. Indeed if Israel has no regard for the human rights of its neighbors, the spiral of violence, the constant reproduction of vengeance for lost lives on both sides, will never end. Only with restraint and cooperation, from both sides, can there be peace, and that was precisely the final message of Finkelstein?...