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Prime Minister Dershowitz: "No Carter Without Me"
Friday, January 12, 2007

Prime Minister Dershowitz is not content to savagely attack Jimmy Carter on the Internet: Now it turns out he's been saying that Carter should not be allowed to speak at Brandeis unless he debates Dershowitz. Eh? The president who negotiated the Camp David accords cannot be heard on the subject of Israel-Palestine unless he debates Alan Dershowitz?!? If Dershowitz is so concerned about balance, where's the other side?

As the Boston Globe reported this week, Carter originally turned down the invitation (Good for him!) but this week a compromise was worked out:

Last month, the former president told the Globe he had declined an invitation from a university trustee to speak at Brandeis, because it came with the suggestion he debate Alan Dershowitz, a professor at Harvard Law School who has criticized Carter's book, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Carter's original decision set off a furor on campus and sparked a petition of more than 100 students and faculty members, who said Carter should be invited to speak without debating Dershowitz. Others contended that inviting Carter to speak without a debate would violate the university's responsibility to promote free speech.
The invitation to Carter also triggered questions about how open the predominantly Jewish campus is to views critical of Israel.

At least we finally have an answer of who should take the next open seat on the U.N. Security Council.

Labels: Middle East

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