Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Dershowitz, Finkelstein & Gov Arnold

I really wanted to call this post: "2 Jews and an Austrian", but thought that people may mistakenly think that I am anti-Semitic. Anyhoo... the story is this: Norman Finkelstein (who is Jewish) has written a book that Alan Dershowitz (Jew also), the prominent Harvard law professor, does not want published-- so, Dershowitz wrote a letter to Gov Arnold asking the Gov to stop the University of CA Press from publishing Finkelstein's book. Dershowitz's problem w/Finkelstein's book called "Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History"? Finkelstein (who is the son of 2 Holocaust survivors) is not a Zionist. Beyond Chutzpah makes his anti-Zionist stance clear, and this pisses off Dershowitz, who in 2003 wrote the pro-Zionist book "The Case for Israel". Ya have to read the article to see just how far Dershowitz is willing to go to stop Finkelstein's publisher, but when will this religious extremism/ Manifest Destiny crap stop? Are there no moderates left in this world?
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