Gregory Afghani: Truth and Tenure: Finkelstein and the Perils of Impeccable Scholarship

Norman Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul University for one primary reason - his impeccable scholarship. Finkelstein, by all accounts, is a shoe-in for tenure but he dared to accurately and cohesively dismantle, question and expose the motives and methods undertaken by members of Israel Inc., like Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz, who have as their primary life objective - working on behalf of The State of Israel.

Dershowitz, perhaps the leading American apologist for Israeli state terrorism and American terrorist foreign policy (in so much as that foreign policy benefits Israel) is a genuine zealot, who among other dubious distinctions, is a well-documented plagiarist and obvious enemy of human rights, irrespective of his reflexive tantrums and self-serving pronouncements as a "civil libertarian".

Dershowitz commandeered the campaign to negatively influence Finkelstein's bid for tenure for over a year, consisting of vitriolic op-ed pieces and inappropriate communication with DePaul officials to defame Finkelstein, to great effect it turns out. Dershowitz has long been a key constituent of the pro-Israel chorus in America, so it was no surprise that Israel Inc. organs like the ADL "applaud the University for its actions," while slightly more attenuated elements, like Campus Watch, were sufficiently pleased to publish the ADL's vision of "continuing the close relationship between DePaul and the Jewish community," now enhanced with the denial of tenure to the Jewish Finkelstein, we are led to believe.

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