What do you do when somebody wants to publish a book that says you're completely wrong? If you're Alan Dershowitz, the prominent Harvard law professor, and the book is Norman Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, you write the governor of California and suggest that he intervene with the publisher--because the publisher is the University of California Press, which conceivably might be subject to the power of the governor.This would be hilarious if only it weren't so darn pathetic. Dershowitz has apparently decided to soldier on in his battle against Finkelstein, resorting to even more desperate measures and digging himself into yet a deeper hole of intellectual bankruptcy.
Longtime AmSam readers might fondly recall the Democracy Now! "debate" that kick started this particular feud.
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