Again, please post any objective reviews showing Dershowitz acted as an amatuer?

From one of the many essays on the subject:
Dershowitz is impatient with that line of defense. “One of the most offensive things they are saying in their defense is that they have the support of Jews. Our staff is Jewish, the people who endorsed the book are Jewish, some of our best friends are Jewish. Well, Norman Finkelstein proves that a Jew can be an anti-Semite,” he says. In the end, Dershowitz has little doubt about why the press published Beyond Chutzpah. “I think they have a double standard for judging the hard anti-Zionist right than they would for David Duke and the far right. But David Duke and Norman Finkelstein are the same,” he says. “Except that Duke is slightly brighter.”

Avi Shlaim of Oxford University calls Beyond Chutzpah “Brilliantly illuminating… On display are all the sterling qualities for which Finkelstein has become famous: erudition, originality, spark, meticulous attention to detail, intellectual integrity, courage, and formidable forensic skills.”

Chutzpah has been consingend to the dustbins of fraud and plagiarism.

Dershowitz’s demolision of Norman forced the publisher to hold up publication until Norman removed the outright lies.

I am surprised that nearly all scholars are Norman’s opponents, but clearly he has earned their opposition. Seems much more meaningful now.

Finkelstein was forced to remove a very few stetments, which in the context of a whole critiue aimed at Derchowitz, is harldy a failure on his part so much as an indictement of Dershowitz given how much he mobilized to have Finkelstein’s book prevented from being published.

Who is it that deems Finkelstein’s wokr worhtless other than his opponents? Utterly meanlingless statement that one Chris.

Alexander, an eminant scholar, was not merely slinging mud. I believe he was fairly accurate with “his chief acolyte Norman Finkelstein is a best-selling author in Germany even though his books are deemed worse than worthless by nearly all scholars, including German ones.”

At least Novik makes the first reasoned argument against Filkenstain, where Alexander and his ilk resort hyperbole and meanignelss and unsubstatiated diatribe we’ve come to expect from the Hotowitz school of debate. Few have even taken Filkenstaint to task for his arguments, preferring to imply that those who consider what Filkenstien has to say must be part of an anti-Semtic movement. Very lame andentirely predictable.

Novik’s critique does nto stipulate which assertinos by Filkenstein are questionable. What did Filenstein mean when he refreed to Peter Novick, when decribign him as the “initial stimulus” for The Holocaust Industry? Was he payign hmage to Novik or was he criticising Novik for being party ot the olocaust industry, of which Filkenstein is such an ardent critic?

Of course, it goes without saying that Filkenstein competely dissected Allan Derschowitz’a work, and did the same in a face to face debate with him, so if Filkestein’s assertions are questionable, what does that say about poor Deschowitz?

Yeah OK he did play for Brazil like on three world cup finals, which they won, but was he any good?
Did he ever deserve to be selected?
I’m not sure who you’re talking about - Pele? did he play basketball for the New York Knicks? No, he was an anti-semite from Brazil.

Finkelstein’s mentor on Finkelstein

“As concerns particular assertions made by Finkelstein…, the appropriate response is not (exhilarating) “debate” but (tedious) examination of his footnotes. Such an examination reveals that many of those assertions are pure invention… No facts alleged by Finkelstein should be assumed to be really facts, no quotation in his book should be assumed to be accurate, without taking the time to carefully compare his claims with the sources he cites…. I had not thought that (apart from the disreputable fringe) there were Germans who would take seriously this twenty-first century updating of the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion.’ I was mistaken.”

Peter Novick,

whose work Finkelstein described as the “initial stimulus” for The Holocaust Industry (p. 4),

‘Offene Fenster und Tueren,’
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, February 7, 2001