Posted on 08/31/2007 8:21:09 AM PDT by Froufrou
I can see why you would group them together, if just for the reason that they received the same fate, but they are not cut from the same cloth.
Finklestein is obsessive, but not an intellectual fraud and charlatan like Churchill.
By the way, I don't begrudge DePaul its right to remove Finklestein, and his attempt to stay on it farcical. He needs to just move on.
I can see why you would group them together, if just for the reason that they received the same fate, but they are not cut from the same cloth.
Finklestein, though he may be obsessive, is not an intellectual fraud and charlatan like Churchill.
By the way, I don't begrudge DePaul its right to remove Finklestein, and his attempt to stay on it farcical. He needs to just move on.
Then you're relying on second-hand accounts and letting others shape your opinions, and that's never a good thing.
I urge you to google "Finklestein and Derschowitz" and you can find the transcript of the debate, the background,etc.
Finklestein credibly accuses Derschowitz of plagiarism, and backs it up with facts. Dersch had to do some gymnastics to avoid having Harvard reprimand him, and I for one think that Derschowitz was proven guilty by Finklestein, It was quite a brush-up, and its not surprising that Dersch is central in the group trying to silence Finklestein.
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