[Marxism] Dershowitz and Finkelstein

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

NY Times, April 12, 2007
A Bitter Spat Over Ideas, Israel and Tenure
By PATRICIA COHEN

If the longstanding fight between two professors, 
Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein, was under 
the jurisdiction of family court, a judge could 
issue restraining orders and forbid inflammatory 
statements. But, alas, this nasty and zealously 
pursued feud is taking place in scholarly 
precincts, so each protagonist is continuing his 
campaign, unhampered, to destroy the other?s 
professional reputation and career.

In the latest round, first reported in The 
Chronicle of Higher Education, Mr. Dershowitz, a 
law professor at Harvard and a prominent defender 
of Israel, is trying to derail Mr. Finkelstein?s 
bid for tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. 
He has sent a blast of e-mail messages to faculty 
and administrators there accusing Mr. Finkelstein 
of shoddy scholarship, lying and anti-Semitism.

Mr. Finkelstein, who is going before a 
university-wide review panel on Friday, the third 
and final step of the tenure process, said that 
so far two committees ? one from the political 
science department and one from the college as a 
whole ? voted in favor of tenure. But the college 
dean rejected his advisory committee?s vote and 
recommended against an appointment.

?I am personally confident that had the process 
been without outside interferences, I would have 
gotten tenure,? Mr. Finkelstein said. (Tenure 
decisions will be announced in June, said Denise 
Mattson, a spokeswoman for DePaul.)

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/arts/12tenu.html

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