Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has written a new book defending Israel and refuting claims made regularly by its critics regarding the Jewish state’s human-rights record and its respect for international law.
The 240-page volume, entitled “The Case for Israel”, is set to be released next week in the United States.
According to information provided by the publisher, the book “refutes thirty-two separate slurs, slanders, and misrepresentations that have been hurled at Israel in recent years”. It addresses topics such as targeted assassinations of terrorist leaders, Israel’s human rights record in the territories, and the Arab refugee problem.
“I argue that those who single out Israel for unique criticism not directed against countries with far worse human rights records are themselves guilty of international bigotry”, writes Dershowitz. “But when the Jewish nation is the only one criticized for faults that are far worse among other nations, such criticism crosses the line from fair to foul, from acceptable to anti-Semitic."
Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School, and one of America’s most prominent appellate lawyers.
The 240-page volume, entitled “The Case for Israel”, is set to be released next week in the United States.
According to information provided by the publisher, the book “refutes thirty-two separate slurs, slanders, and misrepresentations that have been hurled at Israel in recent years”. It addresses topics such as targeted assassinations of terrorist leaders, Israel’s human rights record in the territories, and the Arab refugee problem.
“I argue that those who single out Israel for unique criticism not directed against countries with far worse human rights records are themselves guilty of international bigotry”, writes Dershowitz. “But when the Jewish nation is the only one criticized for faults that are far worse among other nations, such criticism crosses the line from fair to foul, from acceptable to anti-Semitic."
Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School, and one of America’s most prominent appellate lawyers.