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In case you don't know Norman G Fiinkelstein an assistant professor at DePaul University, is up for tenure. He is son of a holocaust survivor and author of books critical of zionism and israeli policies. His books include the Holocaust Industry and Beyond Chutzpah.

Alan Dershowitz a professor at Harvard Law School an advocate of israel and author of many books, has written to the president of DePaul University against granting tenure to Finkelstein.

Dr. Norman Finkelstein's Tenure :: Israel, Academic Freedom or Academic Censorship ::
by Mohamed Khodr
(Thursday, April 19, 2007)
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Contrary to his words, Dershowitz did launch a nationwide smear campaign against Harvard Professor Stephen Walt and Chicago University Professor John Mearsheimer’s scholarly paper entitled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy”. Ironically, no one in the U.S. dared publish this paper, hence its publication in London. He and others similarly attacked President Jimmy Carter for his book; “Palestine—Peace or Apartheid”.
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http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/42626

Haughty answer to Pakistan
By Haaretz Editorial

Pervez Musharraf, the president of Pakistan - one of the most influential Muslim countries in the world, a historic ally of the United States and a close ally of Saudi Arabia - is seeking to advance a diplomatic initiative for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The gist of his initiative, which has been coordinated with the leaders of Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia - other non-Arab Muslim states - expands the scope of the Arab initiative: diplomatic relations and normalization in exchange for a solution to the conflict.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/851874.html

Brasscheck TV

In the US, public debate on Israel
and its treatment of Palestinians
could be characterized as "Profiles in
Cowardice."

One exception: former President
Jimmy Carter.

Carter has been calling the Israeli
treatment of Palestinians "as bad
as or worse than the treatment of
blacks in South Africa under
apartheid."

For his comments, he has been effectively
banned from speaking on numerous
US college campuses:

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/97.html

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