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...response to former O.J. defense attorney Dershowitz entitled “The Glove Does Fit,” Finkelstein argues that the alleged citation problems are particularly serious because they obscure the extent to which Dershowitz relies on Peters’ book. Finkelstein describes From Time Immemorial as deeply flawed...
Dershowitz called DePaul Professor of Political Science Norman G. Finkelstein’s accusations “funny,” adding that he is “proud to be in the group of people that Finkelstein has attacked,” which he said includes noted author Elie Wiesel and historian Daniel Goldhagen...
Dershowitz told the crowd of about 200 that he only mentioned Finkelstein’s accusation “to show the absurd lengths that [Finkelstein and others] are going to delegitimate” him because of his political and ideological views...
...Finkelstein has accused Dershowitz of “wholesale lifting of source material” from Joan Peters’ history of the settling of Palestine, From Time Immemorial. He points to instances in which Dershowitz cited only primary sources, when it appears he first found the information in Peters’ book...
Finally, a word about the Finkelstein chart. By juxtaposing quotes from my book with quotes from Peters’s book, he makes it appear that I am borrowing words from her. But these are all quotes—properly quoted and cited in my book—from third parties. Of course they are similar, or the same. One does not change a quote. And since I did find some of the quotes in Peters’s book, as she found them in others, it should come as no surprise that the ellipses are sometimes similar...