[Peace-discuss] Dershowitz blames Palestinians for Holocaust

[Carl G. Estabrook]

Excellent letter.

The actor Natalie Portman was a research assistant for Dershowitz when she was a student. 

Her recent comments may indicate a new attitude to his lies and calumnies, and spreading distress at the US-backed crimes of the government of Israel among its American supporters - Jews and others: <http://mondoweiss.net/2018/04/natalie-portmans-cancellation/>.

—CGE


> On Apr 25, 2018, at 8:35 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Submitted to the News-Gazette, not yet published:­
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> The Gies College of Business at UIUC, with the full support and likely the primary instigation of Dean Jeffrey Brown, has invited retired Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to speak on April 26th.
> Brown was recently one of 17 faculty signatories to Cary Nelson’s letter in the Daily Illini, “We do not need another acrimonious divestment debate (regarding Israel) at UIUC.” This letter, signed by local Zionist luminaries such as May Berenbaum, Richard Herman, Gene Robinson, and Michael LeRoy, called for “nuance and context, providing students the opportunity to learn in detail.”
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> In Dershowitz’s 2004 book The Case for Israel he states, regarding the Nazi holocaust: “The Palestinian leadership with the acquiescence of most of the Palestinian Arabs actively supported and assisted the Holocaust and Nazi Germany and bears considerable moral, political, and even legal culpability for the murder of many Jews.” (p. 54)
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> It's hard to imagine a less nuanced and contextualized statement regarding Israel/Palestine. Nevertheless, this is characteristic of Dershowitz’s pronouncements over decades. It’s similarly difficult to imagine a more mendacious, lurid, and racist statement, again typical of Dershowitz’s calumnies against the Palestinians.
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> In his own recent letter to the DI, Brown opposes divestment but “welcomes debate” regarding Israel/Palestine. But welcoming Dershowitz hardly seems an appropriate means toward such an end; not that Brown can credibly claim to be more sincere. Brown goes about “engaging” Israeli businesses, while Israel (with Dershowitz’s support) goes about the business of gunning down unarmed protestors in Gaza, with Brown's "acquiescence" if not worse.
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