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The Dershowitz–Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005. Shortly after the publication of the book ''The Case for Israel'', by Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, Norman Finkelstein alleged that it was "a collection of fraud, falsification, plagiarism and nonsense."〔Amy Goodman, ("Scholar Norman Finkelstein Calls Professor Alan Dershowitz's New Book On Israel a 'Hoax'," ) ''Democracy Now!'' September 24, 2003, accessed February 10, 2007. (Incl. links to full transcript and audio clip and MP3 podcast.)〕 Finkelstein further derided the book, remarking, "If Dershowitz's book were made of cloth, I wouldn't even use it as a schmatta ... his book is such garbage."〔Quoted from interview in ''American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein''.〕 Finkelstein charged that Dershowitz had engaged in plagiarism in his use of Joan Peters' book ''From Time Immemorial''.〔Norman G. Finkelstein, (The Dershowitz Hoax ), ''normanfinkelstein.com'' (passim), accessed February 11, 2007.〕 Dershowitz has denied the charges. Former Harvard president Derek Bok, following a review requested by Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, determined that no plagiarism had occurred.〔Marcella Bombardieri, The charges of plagiarism and ghost writing were subsequently removed from the text of Finkelstein's book. ("Academic Fight Heads to Print: Authorship Challenge Dropped from Text," ) ''Boston Globe'' July 9, 2005, accessed February 12, 2007.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mercy of the Court of Public Opinion )〕 In ''Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History'', published by University of California Press on August 28, 2005, Finkelstein aimed to debunk ''The Case for Israel''. Dershowitz had written letters to both the New Press and to the University of California Press to prevent its publication, claiming it contained massive libel and stating that the book should not be published.〔Gary Younge, ("J'accuse," ) ''The Guardian'' August 10, 2005, accessed February 11, 2007.〕 Dershowitz responded in his book ''The Case for Peace'' and alleged a politically motivated campaign of vilification spearheaded by Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Alexander Cockburn against several pro-Israel academics.〔 ==Finkelstein's criticisms of Dershowitz== The bulk of ''Beyond Chutzpah'' consisted of an essay critiquing the "new antisemitism" and longer chapters contrasting Dershowitz's arguments in ''The Case for Israel'' with the findings of mainstream human rights organisations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, asserting that Dershowitz had lied, misrepresented and fabricated many of his points in order to protect Israel and hide its record of alleged human rights violations. Finkelstein has maintained that "the real issue is Israel's human rights record."〔Norman G. Finkelstein, (The Real Issue is Israel's Human Rights Record ), accessed July 6, 2007].〕 In addition, Finkelstein provided what he claimed is evidence of plagiarism in instances where Dershowitz reproduced the exact errors found in Peters's citation of original sources, and thus argues that Dershowitz did not check the original sources he cited, a claim that Dershowitz adamantly denied.〔Norman G. Finkelstein, (Speech presented at Vancouver Public Library ), link to Part 7, webcasts posted at ''workingtv.com'', n.d., accessed February 11, 2007.〕 Finkelstein noted that in twenty instances that all occur within about as many pages, Dershowitz used some of the same words from the same sources that Joan Peters used, largely in the same order. Several paragraph-long quotations that the two books share have ellipses in the same position. Finkelstein claimed that in one instance Dershowitz refers to the same page number as Peters, although he is citing a different (1996) edition of the same source, in which the words appear on a different page.〔Norman G. Finkelstein, ("Alan Dershowitz Exposed: What if a Harvard Student Did This?" ) ''normanfinkelstein.com'' n.d., accessed February 12, 2007.〕 Finkelstein stated: "It is left to readers to decide whether Dershowitz committed plagiarism as defined by Harvard University—'passing off a source's information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite them.'〔Norman G. Finkelstein, ("The Real Issue Is Israel's Human Rights Record: ) A Statement by Norman G. Finkelstein upon Publication of ''Beyond Chutzpah'', 25 August 2005, accessed 13 February 2007.〕 According to a book review of ''Beyond Chutzpah'', written by Prof. Michael C. Desch in ''The American Conservative'', "Finkelstein does not accuse Dershowitz of the wholesale lifting of someone else's words, but he does make a very strong case that Dershowitz has violated the spirit, if not the exact letter, of Harvard's prohibitions of the first three forms of plagiarism."〔Michael C. Desch, ("The Chutzpah of Alan Dershowitz," ) ''The American Conservative'' December 5, 2005, online posting, ''normanfinkelstein.com'', accessed February 10, 2007.〕 Noting his perception of Dershowitz's lack of knowledge about specific contents of his own book during an interview of the two men by Amy Goodman on ''Democracy Now!'', Finkelstein also charged that Dershowitz could not have written the book and may not have even read it.〔 Later, he cited such allegedly "unserious" references as the Sony Pictures website for Kevin Macdonald's documentary film ''One Day in September''〔''(One Day in September )'' Sony Pictures Classics official website, accessed February 13, 2007.〕 and an online high-school syllabus from ''Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Unit for High School Students'', by Professor Ronald Stockton,〔("Some Key Dates in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," ) rev. 2nd ed., University of Michigan–Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1993, archived September 2, 2005.〕 in his criticism of the book. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dershowitz–Finkelstein affair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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