Harvard’s Paper on Israel Drew From Neo-Nazi Sites

When this article came out, it attracted early criticism as noted previously here by the Chief. Now there’s more information available on the contents of Harvard’s little exercise in latter-day Nazi-like anti-semitism.

A prominent Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, is alleging that the authors of a Harvard Kennedy School paper about the “Israel lobby,” one of which is the Kennedy School’s academic dean, culled sections of the paper from neo-Nazi and other anti-Israel hate Web sites.

“What we’re discovering first of all is that the quotes that they use are not only wrenched out of context, but they are the common quotes that appear on hate sites,” Mr. Dershowitz, who is identified in the paper as part of the “lobby,” told The New York Sun yesterday. “The wrenching out of context is done by the hate sites,and then [the authors] cite them to the original sources, in order to disguise the fact that they’ve gotten them from hate sites.”

What else is needed to highlight the sorry state of some of what passes for higher education these days.