The Fanonite

For a long time now Zionist extremist and windbag-extraordinaire Alan Dershowitz has been denying he put any pressure on Norman Finkelstein’s publishers to suppress the latter’s book Beyond Chutzpah which is an expose of his plagiarism and extensive scholarly misconduct. The letters have finally been made public, and the professor of torture has been caught with his pants down once more. Finkelstein writes:

When it was announced in early 2004 that I would publish a study rebutting Professor Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel and documenting that extensive passages in his book had been plagiarized, Dershowitz and his attorneys entered into a protracted correspondence with my publisher (originally New Press and subsequently University of California Press) and other interested parties such as California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Dershowitz has emphatically maintained that he did not seek to suppress publication of my study Beyond Chutzpah, yet he has refused to release his correspondence – indeed, falsely claiming that he had released it. Several months ago a resourceful young man named Shankar Ramamoorthy obtained much of this correspondence via a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request to the University of California Press. Readers can now judge for themselves whether the famed civil libertarian Alan Dershowitz sought to suppress publication of Beyond Chutzpah. It will be noticed that Dershowitz was particularly exercised by the appendix in my study that conclusively demonstrates his plagiarism. For example, a June 1, 2005 letter from his lawyer to University of California Press reads: ‘An appendix is a vestige of some previously needed function in the body. There is no legitimate need for it in your book. The only reason for you to have an appendix is to sell books. But your appendix — if it is not removed before publication — is going to lead to painful surgery for the Press.’

Following is a record of Dershie’s panicked correspondence.

	01 September, 2005				Dershowitz to Lynne Withey (Director, UC Press)
	14 June, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to University Counsel Mary McDonald
	10 June, 2005				University Counsel Mary McDonald to Dershowitz Attorney
	01 June, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to University Counsel Mary McDonald
	13 May, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to University Counsel Mary McDonald
	10 May, 2005				Letter from Harvard Librarian to Dershowitz
	09 May, 2005				University Counsel Mary McDonald to Dershowitz Attorney
	19 April, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to University Counsel Mary McDonald
	21 March, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to University Counsel Mary McDonald
	21 March, 2005				Exhibit A for Letter dated March 21, 2005
	21 March, 2005				Exhibit B for Letter dated March 21, 2005
	04 March, 2005				University Counsel Mary McDonald to Dershowitz Attorney
	24 February, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to University Counsel Mary McDonald
	17 February, 2005				University Counsel Mary McDonald to Dershowitz Attorney
	10 February, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to Lynne Withey (Director, UC Press)
	10 February, 2005				Attachments for Letter dated February 10, 2005
	08 February, 2005				Letter of Resignation from UC Press Board of Directors
	15 January, 2005				Lynne Withey (Director, UC Press) to Dershowitz
	11 January, 2005				Dershowitz Attorney to Lynne Withey (Director, UC Press)
	22 December, 2004				Dershowitz to Governor Schwarzenegger
	22 December, 2004				Dershowitz to Board of Directors (UC Press)
	22 December, 2004				Preliminary Draft of Dershowitz article
	03 December, 2004				Dershowitz to Sheila Levine (Director, UC Press)
	03 December, 2004				Dershowitz to President Robert Dynes (University of California)
	19 November, 2004				Dershowitz to Niels Hooper (UC Press)
	01 July, 2004				Dershowitz to Colin Robinson (Director, New Press)
	16 June, 2004				Dershowitz to Colin Robinson (Director, New Press)
	30 April, 2004				Dershowitz to Colin Robinson (Director, New Press)
	13 April, 2004				Dershowitz to Colin Robinson (Director, New Press)