{"id":288,"date":"2007-06-07T12:03:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2007-06-07T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T16:03:04","slug":"dershowitz-trivers-and-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Dershowitz, Trivers, and me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alan Dershowitz, a professor of Law at Harvard, is an enthusiast for torture and an apologist for a Greater Israel. Bob Trivers<\/a> is one of the most distinguished theoretical biologists alive. Dershowitz has been campaigning — alongside racist slime like Martin Peretz — to have the Jewish historian Norman Finkelstein denied tenure because he has written about the use of the Holocaust to justify modern Israeli policies. Dershowitz was also — of course — an enthusiast for last summer’s Israeli invasion of Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n

He just managed to have cancelled a lecture Trivers was due to deliver at Harvard after Trivers wrote to him privately: “Regarding your rationalization of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians, let me just say that if there is a repeat of Israeli butchery toward Lebanon and if you decide once again to rationalize it publicly, look forward to a visit from me. Nazis — and Nazi-like apologists such as yourself — need to be confronted directly.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Dershowitz, tremendously brave when it comes to urging on other people to torture, passed the letter on to the police.<\/p>\n\n

There is an account of this<\/a> in David Horowitz’ loathsome Front Page<\/em> which I noticed because it quoted from my profile of Trivers, introducing some quite gratuitous inaccuracies. For a flavour, consider this statement: His juvenile boasting about getting a biology prize aside, Trivers is not best known for his biological writings at all but rather for his long collaboration with Huey Newton and the Black Panthers<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The prize to which Front Page<\/em> is referring is the Crafoord Prize, which is what theoretical biologists get when they are not eligible for a Nobel because their work can’t be represented as “physiology or medicine”.<\/p>\n\n

The comments, also, are quite amusing. I did not add any myself, because you have to register to help the moderators provide “a quality platform for debate”. What quality? you may ask. The quality of this comment<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

If the United States is suffers a major attack by terrorists and hundreds of thousands are killed, we need to round all the leftist traitors like Chompsky, Ward Churchill, Trivers, Finklestein and about twenty thousand others . We would put them in all camps, kill them, and stoke up the ovens and crenate them and scatter their ashes to the winds.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

UPDATE<\/span>: As a pendant to this, it is worth reading the interview<\/a> that Front Page<\/em> did with Ian Buruma, where the pseudo-trot certainties of the interviewer, who managed to work into one purported question the phrases “Surely you are aware … you are clearly aware, of course … you take into account …,<\/span> provoked Buruma to respond: “Since you seem to know so precisely what I am aware of, and what I take into account, there may be little point in my continuing this discussion.”<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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