Harvard posts rebuttal to paper

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Harvard posts rebuttal to paper
Reply challenges 'lobby' assertion
April 6, 2006

Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government yesterday posted on its website a rebuttal from Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz to a paper that alleges that US foreign policy is dominated by a pro-Israel lobby to the detriment of the US national interest.

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The Dershowitz rebuttal attacks the scholarship of the Israel lobby paper for allegedly uncritical use of material from authors known for antipathy to the United States and to Israel, for allegedly distorting the historical record, and for 10 assertions about Israel and the Israel lobby that Dershowitz says are demonstrably false. It can be viewed at:

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/research/working_papers/dershowitzreply.pdf

This is the first time the Kennedy School has posted a rebuttal to a working paper on its website, under a new policy announced by Dean David Ellwood in response to widespread complaints about the Mearsheimer-Walt paper. Under the policy, any full-time Harvard faculty member is entitled to rebut assertions of the Kennedy School faculty so long as the rebuttal is scholarly in nature. Rebuttal papers must pass review by senior faculty of the school before they can be posted.



http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/04/06/harvard_posts_rebuttal_to_paper/

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1. This comment reminded me of this topic

http://foi.missouri.edu/usenergypolicies/harvardharkenwsj.html where Harvard bailed out Bush's Harken Oil. Guess ol' Harvard isn't looking too good right now.

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2. Oh that's interesting.

I knew of Harken and of bush's many failed ventures where he got bailed out and refinanced by dad's connections, but never really paid attention to any of the details.