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Americans, particularly black leaders, should view the treatment of Palestinians in the Mideast as only one part of the global human rights question, Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, told a Riesman Center audience Friday...
Dershowitz said U.S. black leaders have traditionally refrained from involvement in global human rights issues and concentrated instead on domestic problems...
...then that Jesse Jackson, for example, has singled out the Palestinians for his first major foray into global human rights?" Dershowitz asked. He said there are 44 other major subordinated peoples in the world that Jackson seems to be overlooking, citing the Kurds in Iraq and Iran, Crimean Tatars, Ethiopian Jews, and French Canadians as examples...
...Declaration of Human Rights, like the Soviet Constitution, is "full of beautiful words but much abused," he said...
...specifically criticized a Third World symposium at the Law School last year that presented a human rights award to the Libyan ambassador. "Jews here have inexcusably been treated as second-class citizens," Dershowitz said...