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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I don't know much about Columbia, and wouldn't be surprised if it lacks a diversity of views on this issue. But trashing a dead man doesn't seem like a very good way of making this case. Typical Dershowitz.
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There is some diversity of opinion at Columbia. There is the "Israel is engaged in genocide" opinion, and there is the "criticism of Israel or sympathy for Palistinians is antisemitism" opinion. Everyone else just keeps their head down to avoid being hit with stray invective.
Dershowitz is probably harming his cause with people who actually are familiar with Said, but to most of the public, the combination of the terms "arab" "academic" "new york city" and "university" means that he was obviously an amoral, socialist, wild-eyed, anti-American corrupter-of-youth, and Dershowitz is just pointing out the obvious.
