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Norman G. Finkelstein...
...have proven beyond any doubt that what Norman Finkelstein and Alexander Cockburn have accused me of doing—properly quoting material I first came across in secondary sources to their primary—follows proper citation form and certainly does not constitute plagiarism (News, “Dershowitz Defends Book,” Oct. 2). They believe I should have cited the material as follows: “Quoted in Peters.” But the Chicago Style Manual specifically says that, “to cite a source from a secondary source ('Quoted in….') is generally...
...Finkelstein has called Elie Wiesel—whose lifelong devotion to peace and reconciliation earned him the Nobel Peace Prize—a “clown” (See Irish Times, July 1, 2003). He accused Wiesel of lying because Wiesel said that when he was 18 years old “I read The Critique of Pure Reason…in Yiddish.” Here is Finkelstein’s “gotcha” accusation: “The Critique of Pure Reason was never translated into Yiddish” (The Guardian, July...
...Finkelstein apologized for leveling false and disproved charges of “plagiarism,” “fraud,” “hoax,” “hucksterism,” “slipshod scholarship,” “blackmail,” and “profiteering” against some of the world’s most distinguished professors and writers, including Stuart Eizenstadt, Burt Neuborne, Gerald Feldman, Sir Martin Gilbert, Richard Overy, Abba Eban, Yehuda Bauer, Daniel Goldhagen and others. (Goldhagen demonstrated that Finkelstein “fabricated?...
...Finkelstein] is going to try to make his reputation by increasing the volume of his accusations...