…by Jonas E. Alexis, VT Editor

I want to state unequivocally again that I disagree strongly with Cornel West with issues like Black Lives Matter. But it seems that the Zionist culture at Harvard denied him, not because West has sided with BLM, but because West has explicitly chosen to attack Benjamin Netanyahu and much of the Zionist superstructure in Israel.

The claim from Harvard is that West’s work is not substantive enough, that he is “too controversial.”[1] That is certainly window dressing because if it is true, then how did Alan Dershowitz get tenure at the same school? Do they think everyone is blind?

The people at Harvard again needs to pick up Norman Finkelstein’s scholarly study, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, which literally exposes Dershowitz as an academic fraud who got tenure at a major institution of the country. Dershowitz also had a long debate with Finkelstein on Democracy Now!, during which Finkelstein methodically pointed out that Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel has been plagiarized.

After Finkelstein put Dershowitz’s feet firmly in midair, Dershowitz immediately went to work. Dershowitz even tried to stop the University of California from publishing Finkelstein’s Beyond Chutzpah. Dershowitz was so desperate at the time that he even tried to get Arnold Schwarzenegger, then governor of California, involved in putting a price on Finkelstein’s academic career. In 2007, Dershowitz



sent members of DePaul’s law and political-science faculties what he described as ‘a dossier of Norman Finkelstein’s most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright lies, misquotations, and distortions.’”[2] In the end, Finkelstein was basically fired from DePaul University. After the event, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that Finkelstein could not find a serious academic job—“not even as an adjunct” professor—anyway on the planet.[3]

During the 2005 debate, Finkelstein accused Dershowitz of plagiarism, lifting quotes from Joan Peters’ From Time Immemorial without proper citations. Dershowitz obviously did not like that. He even accused Finkelstein of anti-Semitism, despite the fact that Finkelstein’s relatives died during Nazi Germany!

Dershowitz was asked by British television reporter Riz Khan to appear with Finkelstein in an interview. Dershowitz declined, saying, “I will not be on your show with anti-Semites.”[4] He repeats the accusation in his new book, declaring that people like Finkelstein “have proved [that] even a Jew can be anti-Semite.”[5] He was even less subtle in a 2009 interview:

“Norman Finkelstein is a sick and deeply disturbed, self-hating Jew, who in his autobiography implied that his own mother was a kappo. He constantly compares Israel to the Nazis (though he seems to admire the Nazis and to despise Israel). He constantly invokes anti-Semitic stereotypes of the kind that were found in Der Stutterer. He is beneath contempt and deserves no further comment. He should be relegated to the dustbin of history and ignored.”[6]

Dershowitz argues in another publication that people like T. S. Eliot, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Tacitus, and Cicero were also anti-Semites.[7] This is the kind of “academic” studies we are dealing with.

Dershowitz did have a debate with West on the Israel/Palestine conflict, and Dershowitz certainly was not pleased with West’s position. Obviously we are talking about Zionist privilege here. If West’s academic work isn’t substantive, then Harvard needs to start refunding thousands of dollars for putting Alan Dershowitz—the man who used a high school syllabus as an academic source!—on a pedestal.


  • [1] Laura Krantz, “Cornel West threatens to leave Harvard again,” Boston Globe, February 20, 2021.
  • [2] “DePaul Rejects Tenure Bid by Finkelstein and Says Dershowitz Pressure Played No Role,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 8, 2007.
  • [3] “Closed Out? Norman Finkelstein, Controversial Scholar Denied Tenure, Can’t Find a Job,” Chronicle of Higher Education, July 7, 2008.
  • [4] “Riz Khan—Professor Norman Finkelstein, 21 June 27,” Youtube.com.
  • [5] Alan Dershowitz, The Case Against Israel’s Enemies (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2008), 97.
  • [6] Jamie Glazov, “Diagnosing the Gaza War,” FrontPageMag.com, February 5, 2009.
  • [7] Alan M. Dershowitz, Chutzpah (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 113.

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3 COMMENTS

  1. What a ‘side show’! Why are we getting into issues such as this? Not important, it is a minor distraction, by personalities. What WE All of US should concentrate on and try to solve, bring into the ‘LIGHT’, 24/7/365, for almost two decades now, without allowing any disruption, is; who done, who is responsible for the DEMONIC Crime against US, that was perpetrated on ‘9/11/2001’ against the People of the United States, on our own SOIL! That is the ‘Crime of the Ages’, done by DEMONIC CREATURES, that at the cost of 2977 innocent Collateral Victims, ‘Sacrificial Lambs’ dragged the, ‘Land of the Free’ into the unending wars of the Middle East! Our Military, our ‘BLOOD and Treasure’ has been ‘Used-Abused’, for almost two decades now, as the, ‘Sacrificial Offerings’ on the, barbaric-bloody Altar of Zionism, on the World Stage! Get Congress, our Government to Investigate, ‘9/11’! That is what ALL of US, should demand and push for! ‘9/11’ was/IS the ‘TRIGGER’ to all that has happened in the World for the last two decades! Don’t Forget! Don’t FORGIVE! Like what the Zionist Demonic zealots have done to a Friend? http://www.holocaustonthehighseas.com that false Flag FAILED! But ‘9/11’, “False Flag” attack, turned into a ‘Roaring Success’ for the Demonic Creatures and we have turned parts of our World into, ‘HELL on EARTH’ and it is still going on! “INVESTIGATE”, who are behind the, ‘9/11/2001′ False Flag’ Attack!!??

  2. Cornel West is a delight to listen to. He can be intellectually arcane and somewhat intimidating for the uninitiated, and has this ability to cite numerous quotes and thinkers very extemporaneously, without any notes. What really comes across most strongly in his elocution is his beautiful soul!

  3. Dershowitz declined to appear with Finkelstein because he knew he would be pummeled by him.
    Douchewitz is a lightweight.

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