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More than 100 anti-Semitic, white supremacist and other controversial websites are currently being filtered by the French and German versions of Google, the world’s most popular search engine, according to a new Harvard Law School (HLS) report.
In “The Petitioners’ Big Lie” (Opinion, Oct. 24), Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz writes: “The divestment petition, which singles out Israel for criticism in the face of the reality that its human rights record is far better than...
There are two contentions to Dershowitz’s argument: First, that singling out Israel rather than any other nation in the region for criticism using the divestment petition (and hence, delegitimization) is unfair. And second, delegitimizing the Jewish state is anti-Semitic in effect.
With regard to the second contention, the argument seems to imply that all those who believe that no state’s foundational ethic should be exclusive and ethnic in nature, and act upon that belief, are guilty of something morally equivalent to “effective” anti...
In other words, if for the above reasons one does not accept a definitional linkage between Israel and Jews, it is difficult to see how any criticism of Israel, even if unfair, can be viewed as being anti-Semitic in effect. Unless, of course, as Dershowitz must clearly believe, all...