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...Dershowitz called JFP’s decision to invite Finkelstein “shameful” and urged the group to invite a different speaker.“They can get much better people to make the case for Palestine than Norman Finkelstein, because he just makes the ad hominem case against those who support a moderate resolution for peace,” he said.In October, JFP invited Dershowitz to debate Finkelstein, but Dershowitz said he declined the invitation because “there’s nothing to debate.”In a staff editorial two weeks...
...unquestionably the case that members of this Faculty should feel entirely free to question my opinions or policies without fear that I will engage in any kind of ad hominem attack,” Summers responded...
...Stewart pointed out about CNN’s “Crossfire,” debates between big personas can denigrate into over-the-top theatrical hullabaloos. Some students were turned off by such antics in Social Analysis 78, when at times serious discussion was replaced by ad-hominem attacks and personal jabs. However, such jokes are fairly common shopping period occurrences, and we trust that the class will become more serious, scholarly and nuanced in subsequent lectures...
Several professors said they were appalled by the ad hominem attacks on their colleague in the press...
...Rolland, a supremely confident consultant from Pomerol in the Bordeaux region, to upgrade their production. His lab can reduce a blackberry bouquet into its precise chemical constituents, and then tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter "must have grown up, like so many Americans, surrounded by Coca-Cola, hamburgers and The Muppet Show." That weirdly parochial insult only highlights Nossiter's cosmopolitan approach. He finds nuance everywhere, including in his interview with Robert Parker, the redoubtable American wine critic who can make...