The Case for Israel
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The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz,[1] a law professor at Harvard University, attempts to refute common criticisms of Israel, and defends it as an example of a successful Western-style democracy coping with the challenges of Islamic terrorism.
The book is divided into several chapters, each of which addresses what Dershowitz identifies as being particularly strong "myths" about Israel. The writings of Edward Said and Noam Chomsky are among the critics of Israeli he quotes the most heavily.
Dershowitz would later release a sequel championing the two state solution called "The Case for Peace."
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[edit] Criticisms and controversy
Norman Finkelstein, who teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago, claims the book is a hoax [1] and that some of its citations are plagiarized from the book From Time Immemorial [2]. These heated claims have led to what has become known to some as the Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair. Finkelstein devotes much of his book Beyond Chutzpah to responding to Dershowitz's arguments with documentation from human rights groups and historians.[2]
The Case Against Israel, is a response to The Case for Israel[3] by Michael Neumann, a professor of philosophy at Trent University.
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- ^ Dershowitz, Alan (2003). The Case for Israel. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-67952-X.
- ^ Finkelstein, Norman G. (2005). Beyond Chutzpah : On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24598-9.
- ^ Neumann, Michael (2005). The Case Against Israel (Counterpunch). AK Press. ISBN 1-904859-46-1.
