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The Harvard Law School professor had publicly challenged Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson to a debate over the Israel divestment petition that Hanson signed last spring. Last night, saying Hanson had turned down his offer, Dershowitz staged a solo debate in the Winthrop Junior Common Room.
Standing beside a chair with a copy of the petition taped to it, he said students and professors who had signed the petition were anti-semitic and knew “basically nothing about the Middle East.”
“Your House master is a bigot and you ought to know that,” he told the crowd of about 200 students. “Everyone else who signed that petition is also a bigot.”
Dershowitz criticized those who signed the petition, saying it was “the most unacademic thing to do.”
Even ROTC’s opponents should consider supporting this position to demonstrate the sincerity of their objections to “don’t ask, don’t tell.” In this matter they could take a lesson from the signatories of the anti-Israel...