Friday, June 15, 2007

Dershowitz applauds DePaul Univ. for tenure denial By Jim Brown

An outspoken anti-Israel professor has been denied tenure at the country’s largest Catholic university. Attorney Alan Dershowitz sees that as a good sign for academia.

DePaul University in Chicago has denied tenure to political science professor Norman Finkelstein, citing his "deliberately hurtful scholarship." Finkelstein has called American Jewish leaders "Holocaust mongers," and in a recent book argues that Israel uses the outcry over perceived anti-Semitism as a weapon to stifle criticism.

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