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.

" ( Finkelstein himself was not sued or charged ; ironically, Caputo's campaign had imploded after revelations he'd lied about serving in the military, and Moynihan was never seriously challenged.

* Alan Dershowitz and Norman G. Finkelstein – Finkelstein is a frequent guest.

Dershowitz has written that he agreed to appear on the show after being told he would debate Noam Chomsky, not Finkelstein.

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.

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.

Dershowitz responded in his book The Case for Peace and alleged a politically motivated campaign of vilification spearheaded by Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Alexander Cockburn against several pro-Israel academics.

In addition, Finkelstein provided what he claimed is evidence of plagiarism in instances where Dershowitz reproduced the exact errors found in Peters's citation of original sources, and thus argues that Dershowitz did not check the original sources he cited, a claim that Dershowitz adamantly denied.

Finkelstein noted that in twenty instances that all occur within about as many pages, Dershowitz used some of the same words from the same sources that Joan Peters used, largely in the same order.

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.

Finkelstein stated: " It is left to readers to decide whether Dershowitz committed plagiarism as defined by Harvard University – ' passing off a source's information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite them.

' 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.

" Several supporters of Finkelstein, however, demanded that Dershowitz be fired from his professorship at Harvard Law School.

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

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 quoting Mark Twain, Finkelstein argued, " Dershowitz cites two paragraphs from Twain as continuous text, just as Peters cites them as continuous text, but in Twain's book the two paragraphs are separated by 87 pages.

In the foreword to the first paperback edition, Finkelstein notes that the first hardback edition had been a considerable hit in several European countries and many languages, but had been panned in the US.

* Chapter 1: Capitalizing The Holocaust-by the 1980s, Finkelstein states, the " War against the Jews " had become more important to American cultural life than the " War Between the States ".( p.

Independently, Ruth Bettina Birn ( the world's leading authority on the archives that Goldhagen had consulted and chief historian for War Crimes with the Canadian Department of Justice ) did the same-she and Finkelstein worked together on A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth.

While acknowledging that Morris had brought to light a vast quantity of previously unknown archival material, Finkelstein and Masalha accused Morris of presenting the evidence with a pro-Zionist spin.

According to Norman Finkelstein, it had garnered some two hundred favorable notices in the United States by the end of its publication in 1984.

According to Norman Finkelstein, by the end of 1984 only three critical reviews had appeared, those by Finkelstein in In These Times ( September 5 – 11, 1984 ), Bill Farrell in the Journal of Palestine Studies ( Fall 1984 ) and Alexander Cockburn in The Nation ( October 13, 1984 ).

According to Daniel Finkelstein of The Times the loss came as a ' terrible blow ' to Maude, all his peers had managed to cling on and were together forming a government.

Primarolo's abilities as a minister have been questioned, with former Prime Minister Tony Blair revealing in his autobiography A Journey that he did not think she was " right for government " but had to give her a job because she was one of Gordon Brown's key allies ; and political commentator Danny Finkelstein arguing that she was " contender no.

Though Kershaw had little positive to say about Goldhagen, he wrote that he felt that Norman Finkelstein attack on Goldhagen had been over-the-top and did little to help historical understanding.

Of that election night, Buckley later wrote, " By 10 pm, Clif White and Art Finkelstein ( my volunteer analyst who called the final results within one-tenth of one percent based on a Sunday-night telephone survey ) assured me that I had won.

Finkelstein also had his share of Senate losses, including two by previous client James Buckley ( 1976, New York, and 1980, Connecticut ), and with Avi Nelson ( 1978, Massachusetts ).

Brooklyn native Finkelstein had long advised local and state party organizations in New York ( e. g., the Westchester, Nassau and Suffolk County GOP ).

Finkelstein had several other results that day.

Finkelstein had specialized in federal elections to this point, and it was uncertain how he would adapt to the localized issues and personal style of a gubernatorial contest.

But Finkelstein's greatest personal challenge that year came with the August issue of Boston magazine, which revealed his private life as a homosexual ; the ostensible excuse for the outing was that several Finkelstein clients had voted against gay-rights measures in Congress, and his work to elect them was therefore inconsistent and / or hypocritical.

In his judgement handed down on 28 July 2005, Justice Raymond Finkelstein accepted that Vizard had breached Sections 183 and 232 of the Corporations Act 2001 ( C ' lth ) through his activities.

As of 2007, archaeologists not affiliated with the Shalem Center, particularly the group centered on Tel Aviv University, of which Israel Finkelstein is the leader, doubted that enough evidence had yet been produced to reliably date the structure.

In 1986 Edward Finkelstein, Chairman & CEO of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., led a leveraged buy-out of the company and subsequently engaged in a takeover battle for Federated Department Stores, Inc., in 1988 that he lost to Canada's Campeau Corporation.

Dr. Frank Menetrez looked into Finkelstein's claims and in his 26-page study entitled Dershowitz v. Finkelstein: who's right and who's wrong reaches the conclusion that Dershowitz is indeed guilty of fraud and plagiarism.

" Finkelstein further derided the book, remarking, " If Dershowitz's book were made of cloth, I wouldn't even use it as a schmatta ... his book is such garbage.

Finkelstein tried to make use of Pataki's likely coattails by helming the campaign of David Cornstein for the state Comptroller slot being vacated by McCall.

Notable contributors to the magazine have included Alexander Cockburn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Laura Flanders, Annette Fuentes, Juan Gonzalez, David Graeber, Glenn Greenwald, Miles Harvey, Paul Hockenos, George Hodak, Doug Ireland, John Judis, Naomi Klein, Lucy Komisa, Robert McChesney, Rick Perlstein, Kim Phillips-Fein, Jeffrey St. Clair, Jane Slaughter, James Thindwa, Kurt Vonnegut, Joan Walsh, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Fred Weir, Paul Wellstone, G. Pascal Zachary, and Slavoj Žižek.

" 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.

" Finkelstein points out that these quotations do, however, appear on the pages that Joan Peters cites for her edition of Innocents Abroad.

The political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein says the book is a " hoax " and says that some of its citations are plagiarized from From Time Immemorial, a book by Joan Peters.

In the 2005 book " Beyond Chutzpah ," Finkelstein cites 20 different instances where Dershowitz borrows quotations, including long quotations with ellipses in exactly the same place as in Joan Peters ' book.

Finkelstein examines and scrutinizes popular historical versions of the conflict by Joan Peters, Benny Morris, Anita Shapira and Abba Eban.