A few earlier syndicated programs were hosted by prominent Democrats who were not experienced broadcasters, such as Jim Hightower, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz ; these met with limited success, and Air America has been faced with various legal and financial problems.

Professor Alan Dershowitz has said that " Chabad ’ s presence on college campuses today is absolutely crucial ", and " We cannot rest until Chabad is on every major college campus in the world ".

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has described the abuse excuse as a " lawless invitation to vigilantism ".

Legal scholar Alan Dershowitz has argued that, while a prior history of victimization may be a contributing factor to a violent crime, victimization alone cannot fully explain an act of violence.

Dershowitz has denied the charges.

However, Los Angeles attorney Dr. Frank Menetrez investigated and corresponded with both Harvard and Dershowitz and concluded that " neither Dershowitz nor Harvard, however, has identified the specific issues or arguments that Harvard allegedly investigated and rejected.

' According to a book review of Beyond Chutzpah, written by Prof. Michael C. Desch in The American Conservative, " Finkelstein does not accuse Dershowitz of the wholesale lifting of someone else's words, but he does make a very strong case that Dershowitz has violated the spirit, if not the exact letter, of Harvard's prohibitions of the first three forms of plagiarism.

Dershowitz offered to produce his handwritten drafts ( he does not type ) to debunk the claim that The Case for Israel was ghostwritten and claims Finkelstein has not asked to see them.

Finkelstein claims to have asked for the drafts and that Dershowitz has not produced them.

" " Dershowitz has said he cited sources properly, attempting to check all primary sources and citing Peters when she was his only source.

Dershowitz said that Finkelstein has invented false charges in order to discredit supporters of Israel: " The mode of attack is consistent.

Dershowitz's recent book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Case for Peace, contains a chapter rebutting Finkelstein's charges, which Dershowitz has made available on his web site.

Dershowitz has released a sequel in 2005 championing the two state solution.

Dershowitz has received numerous praises for the eloquent articulation of arguments that many in the pro-Israel community have traditionally held.

Alan Dershowitz has said that Phillips has committed lashon harah in her commentary about the Obama administration's policies towards the Middle East.

Over the last few years, the Museum has held a day-long symposium on Darfur with policy makers and leaders on human rights, presented performers such as Idan Raichel and David Strathairn, and film screenings with actors and directors such as Kirk Douglas, John Turturro, Quentin Tarantino, Claude Lanzmann, and Ed Zwick, and explored Justice after the Holocaust with experts like Alan Dershowitz.

Animal law courses are taught in 92 out of 180 law schools in the U. S., and the movement has gained the support of senior legal scholars, including Alan Dershowitz and Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School.

Dershowitz had written letters to both the New Press and to the University of California Press, to prevent its publication, claiming it contained massive libel and stating that the book should not be published.

Noting his perception of Dershowitz's lack of knowledge about specific contents of his own book during an interview of the two men by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now !, Finkelstein also charged that Dershowitz could not have written the book and may not have even read it.

Dershowitz claims to have written every word of The Case for Israel by hand and to have sent UCP his handwritten manuscript.

In 1995, the Boston Globe reported that New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton created a furor when he said he agreed with most of what Dershowitz had to say.

Finkelstein claimed that in one instance Dershowitz refers to the same page number as Peters, although he is citing a different ( 1996 ) edition of the same source, in which the words appear on a different page.

" While still quoting Twain, although Dershowitz cited a different edition of Twain's Innocents Abroad than Joan Peters cites, Finkelstein continues, " the relevant quotes do not appear on these pages in the edition of Twain's book that Dershowitz cites.

The Dershowitz – Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict in 2005.

Finkelstein argued in a letter to the Harvard Crimson published on October 3, 2003, that Dershowitz reproduced exactly two of Peters ' mistakes, and made one relevant mistake of his own.

In " Statement of Alan M. Dershowitz " featured on a faculty webpage at Harvard Law School,

In their joint interview aired on Amy Goodman's radio program Democracy Now !, Dershowitz responded to Finkelstein's various arguments.

Suchar stated he opposed tenure because Finkelstein's " personal and reputation demeaning attacks on Alan Dershowitz, Benny Morris, and the holocaust authors Eli Wiesel and Jerzy Kosinski " were inconsistent with DePaul's " Vincentian " values.

The book is widely regarded as an authoritative and scholarly text on the intricacies of Israeli history and outspoken in what Dershowitz holds to be the validity of many Israeli policies.

Although repeatedly being approached by third parties to debate the book Dershowitz refused on the ground that he had a " longstanding policy against debating Holocaust deniers, revisionists, trivializers or minimizers "

In a later article commenting on the case Menetrez writes "(...) the book Dershowitz was accused of plagiarizing contained 20 identical errors in a mere 21 lines of text.

* Film of Dershowitz inspired on his book

* Alan Dershowitz ( on SNL )

Phillips's criticisms of liberal Jews who disagree with her positions on Israel have been condemned by Jewish writers such as Jonathan Freedland, Alan Dershowitz, and Rabbi David Goldberg.

Dershowitz and his team focused on the discovery of the bag containing the syringes and insulin.

He portrayed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz in the true story Reversal of Fortune ( 1990 ), based on the trial of Claus von Bülow.

Shortly after the publication of the book The Case for Israel, by Alan Dershowitz, Norman Finkelstein alleged that it was " a collection of fraud, falsification, plagiarism and nonsense.

The book is divided into several chapters, each of which addresses what Dershowitz identifies as being particularly strong accusations and myths about Israel, such as " Israel is the ' prime ' human rights violator in the world " and " Israel is the cause of the Arab – Israeli conflict.

During the debate, Scheuer suggested that " the war in Iraq is the responsibility of the American fifth column that supports Israel " and accused Dershowitz of being part of this " fifth column ".

A prominent critic of Chomsky's political views, Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School, told The New York Times that he believed most of those buying Hegemony or Survival would not read it, remarking that " I don't know anybody who's ever read a Chomsky book ".

This was a much publicized debate about whether the Dershowitz book, The Case for Israel was plagiarized and inaccurate.

Dershowitz then challenged professors Mearsheimer and Falk to a “ public debate about why they have endorsed and said such positive things about so hateful and anti-Semitic a book by so bigoted and dishonest a writer .” Falk rejected Dershowitz ' call to debate and wrote to The Daily Caller “ I have a limited taste for the sort of defamatory polemics that the Dershowitz attack mounts .” He wrote that " if the book is fairly read, and not denounced, it is concerned exclusively with ‘ Jewish identity ,’ not with Jews, and explores this reality in a highly personal, passionate, provocative, and honest manner .”

Gilad Atzmon offered to debate Dershowitz " any time.