Bill Williams: The Commissar Two-Step at DePaul

by BILL WILLIAMS via Counterpunch

Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:02PM

Monday, July 2, 2007 : Over the last few weeks, as I have thought hard about how the Finkelstein and Larudee tenure denials went down the way they did, I repeatedly stumble upon a troubling, but perhaps plausible, scenario. Imagine the following phone conversation between the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz, and John Simon, the Chair of DePaul's Board of Trustees:

Alan Dershowitz: "Is this Finkelstein tenure denial really going to go down without a hitch? There's a lot riding on this."

John Simon: "We'll take care of it Alan. No need to worry. The players are in place. It's a lock. You have my personal assurance."

Alan Dershowitz: "Thanks, John."

In May 2004, a mere one month before fifty Jenner and Block attorneys attended a Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago Lawyer's Division dinner in Chicago, where Alan Dershowitz delivered the keynote address on "The Case for Israel," John Simon, a Jenner and Block partner , was elected Chair of DePaul's Board of Trustees. In October 2004, he assumed the position of chair of the Board of Trustees after having served as a Trustee since 1990.

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