Letters from Dershowitz to UC Press and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger attempting to prevent publication of Norman Finkelstein’s ‘Beyond Chutzpah’

Norman Finkelstein is a scholar (PhD from Princeton) who lost both parents in the holocaust – and Dershowitz still slanders him with the ‘anti-Semitic’ invective. But, because Finkelstein thinks Alan Dershowitz’s unstinting support for Israel’s brutality against the Palestinians is unconscionable, Dershowitz has used all means at his disposal to attack him in both public, and as the below documents show, private. Whereas Dershowitz claims to be a libertarian (and has successfully defended everyone and everything from OJ Simpson to the porn industry), the following letters he wrote to suppress scholarship show him willing to subvert the most basic freedoms of an academic he doesn’t like. Furthermore, Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor, is apparently happy to use his official letterhead in an attempt to bully everyone from fact-checkers, University of California Press administrators, and (my favorite) the Governor of California. Luckily Beyond Chutzpah was published and shows – with empirical evidence – Dershowitz’s pattern of deceit when it comes to denying Israel’s crimes against the illegally occupied Palestinian people. Thank goodness for the freedom of information act.

Link to documents.