DePAUL PROFESSOR DEFAMES CATHOLIC EDUCATION: DONOHUE DEFENDS DERSHOWITZ

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Pax vobiscum!

I’m having a little trouble grasping this professor’s line of reasoning. Let’s go through it.
  • Dershowitz (which sounds to me like a Jewish name) defended Israel’s right to exist.
  • Therefore, Dershowitz is a Nazi.
Could someone please explain to me how someone who defends the right to exist of the JEWISH NATION of Israel is a Nazi??? Is it just me, or is this DePaul professor a complete moron?

In Christ,
Rand
 
Rand_Al_Thor said:
Pax vobiscum!

I’m having a little trouble grasping this professor’s line of reasoning. Let’s go through it.
  • Dershowitz (which sounds to me like a Jewish name) defended Israel’s right to exist.
  • Therefore, Dershowitz is a Nazi.
Could someone please explain to me how someone who defends the right to exist of the JEWISH NATION of Israel is a Nazi??? Is it just me, or is this DePaul professor a complete moron?

In Christ,
Rand
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I was watching Fox News last night and they were talking about the new anti-semetism and that it was on the left not the right. This is only further proof of that being true.

PF
 
Pax vobiscum!

I’m still trying to grasp how someone can be a Nazi for defending Israel’s right to exist. I mean, call me ignorant of history if you will, but didn’t the Nazis dislike the Jews, at least a little bit?

In Christ,
Rand
 
WanderAimlessly said:
I was watching Fox News last night and they were talking about the new anti-semetism and that it was on the left not the right. This is only further proof of that being true.

PF
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Anti-semetism is “chic” again among the left only this time it hides under the guise of supporting “Palestinian Rights”.
 
The slur of Dershowitz being a Nazi for defending Israel’s right to exist is just one example of the mind-twisting, thoughtless invective of the radical left.
estesbob is correct. The radical left has taken up the cause of the Palestinians as a ruse for rabid anti-semitism.
I think it’s worse in Europe, but it’s getting worse here.
Ironically, Allan Dershowitz is a Jewish, left-leaning law professor at Harvard and has defended some of the most famous criminals of the last century.
 
Many universities claim to be Catholic in their recruiting and fund raising literature, but show no other evidence of it. Is DePaul one of these?
 
The Indybay article, to which the Catholic League refers, is no longer viewable. I presume this is due to the CL claims being true. And if you visit what claims to be Norman G. Finkelstein’s official website, it would seem that the Indybay article is only one of many similar statements.

A few people here have mentioned anti-Semitism, but it appears that Professor Norman G. Finkelstein is Jewish, his parents being Holocaust survivors.
cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/authors.php?auid=31
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein
 
I’m no genus, but this must be happening at DePaul because no public university would stand for this.

I am an alumnus of DePaul and I didn’t recognize the school for what it was.

My undergrad degree was from U Mich where I was daily reminded what a great university it was, by the cultural, political, and social activities that went on there.

At DePaul, the classes were something of a melting pot, but mostly composed of conservative middle class upwardly mobile whites, not particularly Catholic in any visible way.

DePaul was the only college (I have three college degrees from two public and one private universities) where one of the instructors used the word " pi** " in the classroom. And, that was a computer science class !
 
As far as Dershowitz (who is Jewish) being a Nazi, the fact is that EVERYONE Finkelstein and his ilk dislike are given this label. If you don’t agree with their agenda, you are a Nazi, a Hitler, and a Fascist. Never mind your race or ethnicity, or even the possibility that you are a Holocaust survivor, are descended from survivors, or that you or your ancestors fought against the Nazis. Don’t expect logic from the neo-McCarthyists and witch hunters like Finkelstein. It’s all about scoring points, cheap shots, and advancing issues. It’s not supposed to make sense.
 
I read Norm Finkelstein often, and have heard him speak on Book-TV. My guess is that the article which Donahue is speaking on, was probably inaccurate and as a result, is no longer viewable. It would be out of character for Finkelstein to call Dershowitz a Nazi and call for his asassination. Finkelstein’s( a Jew himself,) parents were Holocaust survivors.

Finkelstein, who exposed Dershowitz book, " A Case for Isreal," as being plagerized from a fraudulant work by Joan Peters, has been proven to be accurate, even by Finkelstein’s critics.

I think this is a case of jumping to conclusions, based on bogus information.
 
Part of the commentary on CL article at the Norm Finkelstein Website.

The article he refers to is called “Should Alan Dershowitz Target Himself for Assassination?” It was written on 8 August, 2006, complete with 55 footnotes. The version with footnotes has been online since 12 August, 2006. If the righteous gentleman from the Catholic League really cared about “truth” and “standards of evidence” all he had to do was perform a quick Google search prior to publishing his attack piece on 11 October, 2006, and he would’ve found the 55 source notes to the article that so upset his delicate sensibilities with its alleged lack of “pedagogical value.” These days, isn’t it only logical to Google a subject before making a potentially embarrassing public statement about it?

Speaking of “standards of evidence,” one may refer to sources cited in areas such as paragraph 3, where Alan Dershowitz’ proposals for scrapping international law in dealing with the “war on terrorism” are compared to arguments found in Nazi ideology, specifically in Hitler’s Commissar Order. Finkelstein’s documentation for this comparison includes Germany and the Second World War, vol. iv, The Attack on the Soviet Union (Oxford: 1998) and Anatomy of the SS State (New York: 1965). Dershowitz’s arguments are further compared to those found on the far right of the [US] political spectrum, citing examples such as Supreme Court case Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. As for the humorous charge that Finkelstein is “suggesting that Alan Dershowitz be assassinated,” anyone who’s actually read the article would know that Finkelstein states that “the preponderance of humanity, this writer included, does not think this way.”

Donohue certainly doesn’t check his sources before copy/pasting from what reads like a rather humorous hasbara email into official Catholic League press releases.

– Tamudjin

You can read the actual article Norm Finkelstein wrote, here;

normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=386

BTW, Dershowitz is no friend of the Catholic Church.

Catholics should be cautious in aligning themselves with him.
 
Bill Donahue frequently shoots from the hip without carefully checking his facts. I’ve learned never to trust his version of the story until carefully checking other sources. He may be well-intentioned, but terribly misguided.
 
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