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Dershowitz himself came under fire yesterday from a longtime critic, DePaul University professor Norman G. Finkelstein, who questioned whether his own words were taken out of context in Dershowitz’s paper...
Dershowitz charges that Finkelstein blamed the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks. “[W]e [the U.S.] deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true,” Dershowitz quotes Finkelstein as having said. Dershowitz says the quote comes from website counterpunch.org, which is heavily critical of Israel and which posted an interview with Finkelstein in December...
...phone interview yesterday, Finkelstein pointed to the full quotation provided at counterpunch.org...
...website, Finkelstein says he agrees with Bin Laden’s assertion that Americans cannot be secure until the non-Western world is as well—not that the he agrees with Bin Laden’s overall agenda or terrorist tactics...
...issue at hand is an empirical one: this vocal protest was allowed and legitimate. Reports stating otherwise or equating last week’s Finkelstein protest with last year’s CIA protest are either irresponsibly ignorant of the facts or shamefully malicious...