Susan Abulhawa vs Dershowitz, Boston Book Festival Part 2

Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian writer and author of Mornings in Jenin, debates Alan Dershowitz at the Boston Book Festival, Oct 16, 2010

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News & Politics

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• Israel Palestine
• Middle East Conflict
• Boston Book Festival
• Palestine
• Mornings in Jenin
• Susan Abulhawa

[xaamir]

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[run4mother]

Alan Dershowitz should just keep on talking. He's doing more damage to the "Israel cause" by demonstrating how they're running scared. They have neither truth nor righteousness at their core. Susan is right: When people have to resort to interruptions, name-calling, and finger pointing, its pretty certain that's all they have. I applaud all those (Finkelstein, Pappe', Chomsky etc) who speak out despite the lambasting they receive from Dershowitz and his ilk. -ordered 2 copies of Jenin book

[zeeab]

Alan is a very aggressive man who is very angry and does call everybody names that dont agree with him. How can you have a normal conversation with this man when he calls everyone but himself a terrorist? It's not possible that everyone is a terrorist. The facts are, on the ground, that Israel kills, bombs, kidnapps, tortures Palistinians every day. Look at the ratio of violence vs violence of Palistine, it's beyond dissproportionate!

[steute2011]

Correct pronunciation of Dershowitz = Dirt-bag-go-witz.

[bdrasin]

Perhaps a lawyer isn't the best choice for this type of forum?

[evanmarkfilms]

hahahaha. Quoting false quotes! Bwahahahahahah. Classic work, Susan.

[Uncle99B]

Why is it any speech given by anyone who opposes Israeli occupation must be accompanied by a rebuttal by a Zionist like the Dersh? Could it be that the Zionists fear the truth?

[theseventhprotocol]

WOW ! crazy little jew bastard ! 

[Byrnzie400]

'When Zionists suggest that the French and Germans have a right to their states, they conveniently forget that this means the *inhabitants* of France and Germany, not those of some French or German *ancestry*, not a 'people' in the sense of an ethnic group.'

'If there are any great lessons to be learned from the Nazi era , they are to watch out for fascism, racism, and ethnic nationalism. Supporting Israel hardly embodies these lessons.'

- Michael Neumann

[EPALPEACE1]

Why won't that angry Israeli wing-nut let the lady talk. All he can say is "It never happened" "It never happened" "It never happened". One can only think might he say that about the holocaust? Genocide, is genocide, anyway you look at it! Crimes against humanity, IS crimes against humanity. Why won't he just shut-up, and let others talk. WOW, what a nut case!

[peretz48]

What the commenters here want is a sheltered workshop for Ms. Abulhawa's inanities, and Dershowitz would have none of it. Good for you, Alan.

[meshzzizk]

Alan Dershowitz is a bully whose work is embarrassing. In his most recent work of apologetics for Israel's crimes he says Germany and Japan deserved collective punishment because their people democratically voted for war. It's almost as though he doesn't have a basic grasp of high school-level history. It was a joy to watch Norman Finkelstein put him in his place on Democracy Now, and a disgrace that Finkelstein lost career over that confrontation.