since alan dershowitz is trending, here's a thread of him getting absolutely demolished by norman finkelstein. he was humiliated so badly that afterwards he went out of his way to get finkelstein denied tenure and fired

norman finkelstein goes on to show that alan dershowitz' book, wherein he does genocide and apartheid apologia for israel, is a plagiarized fraud, based on another fraud by joan peters

after that volley, norman finkelstein fires again, and again, and again, and dershowitz is running for cover, begging for water and desperately trying to prevent norman from speaking. but norm won't let up. a thing of beauty

now here comes the kill-shot. dershowitz had issued a challenge on national tv: "I will give 10.000 dollars to the PLO if you can find a historical fact in my book that you can prove to be false". norman takes aim carefully, steady, and then BOOM

ok so you think finkelstein is done with dershowitz at this point right? what's left of him? but no, he ain't done. he's going to drop a nuclear bomb on his ass. dershowitz claimed israel did not deliberately kill a single civilian in jenin. norm, take it away:

btw what I've posted are just a few examples of how finkelstein bodied dershowitz. here's more of norm playing around with him like a predator torturing its hapless, mindlessly flailing prey: dershowitz plagiarizing a fake orwell phrase from joan peters without knowing it

here's another quick combo strike where norman finkelstein shows alan dershowitz didn't even get basic facts about an event right even though he was personally present for it

alright so we've seen how norman finkelstein destroyed alan dershowitz in that exchange. what happened afterwards? dershowitz began a hysterical smear campaign against norman, going so low as to accuse his mother, a holocaust survivor, of being a collaborator, as recounted here

dershowitz put this grotesque smear on the harvard law school website, and when finkelstein complained about it to the dean, elena kagan (put on the supreme court by obama), she said she wouldn't remove it. that's what makes dershowitz possible: the institutions that protect him

dershowitz' ego was so bruised by the ass-beating he had received that while smearing his deceased mother with the most grotesque lie imaginable he also went out of his way to ensure finkelstein was denied tenure and fired, as recounted here by chomsky

dershowitz' mania went even further. he tried to prevent norman finkelstein's book exposing his fraud from being published, hiring major lawfirms to sue the publisher and even writing to the governor of california to get it blocked. talk about "suppression of free speech!"

it worked. finkelstein was denied tenure, fired, defamed and marginalized. he wasn't turned into a free speech martyr. the new york times didn't dub him "the most important intellectual in the west". the media class ignored it for reasons I detailed here https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1276279999281143808

but now hopefully after all these years some justice might be coming for alan dershowitz, that vile sex creep who has gotten away with so much disgusting shit you can't even begin to imagine it. damn that ghoul to hell

it only seem appropriate to end the thread with some more clips of norman finkelstein being a badass https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1260871351365242880

and see this for more content from norman, including excellent lectures and books that show why he's the leading scholar on israel-palestine. the fact that he was defamed, denied tenure and fired while third-rate hacks roam the academy is a travesty https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1260878112822345731

actually I think the most fitting ending to the thread would be to share this audio of norman finkelstein's chance encounter with alan dershowitz in 2015. dershowitz reveals himself yet again to be a depraved ghoul, and norman a decent, honest, good man

and this great short piece by chomsky recounting what was done to norman before the dershowitz affair, as a student: https://chomsky.info/power01/ . his own professors and the entire university ostracized him. the title captures it: "The Fate of an Honest Intellectual". some excerpts:

also if you want to stay updated on what norman finkelstein is up to, here's his twitter handle @normfinkelstein

and his website: http://normanfinkelstein.com/