Lynda Brayer: Norman Finkelstein and the Catholic Church

To date, the only apparent reason for this outcome is the unremitting public, and no doubt, private, campaign against Dr. Finkelstein's competence by Alan Dershowitz, a professor of law at Harvard, and one of the leading apologists for Zionism, which, appeared to be motivated by personal pique after Dr. Finkelstein's painstaking analysis revealed the legal invalidity of Dershowitz' arguments which support Israeli violations of international law. One would suspect that because De Paul is a Catholic university, continuing charges of anti-Semitism together with the Holocaust culpability accusations, were not left out of this offensive. Those who find Dr. Finkelstein's firing shocking have attributed weakness of character to the officials at the University for yielding to these pressures.

Before I adduce what I think are other unmentioned, if not hidden, seminal factors contributing to this dismissal, I think it might be worth while to elaborate for purposes of a better understanding of the issues involved, on the work of Dr

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