March 25, 2007
Alan Dershowitz has become perhaps the most prominent spokesman for Israeli interests, and is also famous for defending famous alleged wife-killers such as Claus von Bulow and OJ Simpson, just to name a few. He has also been caught plagiarizing and putting forth lies (say it aint' so!) in his books, such as his "The Case for Israel". Norman Finkelstein has done a great job of skewering Dershowitz with regards to this.
Dershowitz sure knows how to deal the dirt, but can he take it?
Apparently not.
But here is some dirt on Dershowitz, a Jewish-American Zionist, that he has thus far successfully kept out of view from the general public due to his formidable litigious talents and disproportional access to the Zionized US media.
According to Jack Leavitt, a San Francisco-based attorney and novelist and a contemporary of Dershowitz, Alan Dershowitz has a big skeleton in his closet.
Here it is in all its scary, creepy details:
Alan Dershowitz was married to a woman with whom he had two young sons, as he was climbing the ladder of success as a famous attorney.
You will be hard pressed to find anything about his first wife, not even her name, if you try a google-search. Even Zionized wikipedia only mentions this wife as wife number 1, and that 's it. No name. No more details. Just that he had a first wife by whom he had two sons, Elon and Jamin, and a google-search on them will reveal very little, and nowhere is the name of their mother.
According to Jack Leavitt, Dershowitz's first wife found out that he was having an affair with another woman.
His wife became enraged and brashly took many of Dershowitz's important legal papers from cases he was handling and tossed them into the street to be scattered by the winds to and fro.
In response, Alan Dershowitz allegedly pummeled and beat his wife up so badly that she had to be hospitalized. He then took custody of their two young sons, divorced and stripped his wife of financial support except for the bare minimum allowed.
She then killed herself by jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge. Alan Dershowitz promptly took a lie detector test to prove his "innocence" that he did not kill her.
Then Dershowitz used all of his clout available at his disposal to keep the news out of the newspapers, and to make sure that this sordid episode in his life went down the memory hole.
But unfortunately, some people still
remember. And now there is the internet. Word gets around.
When it comes to a wife-beater, plagiarist and defender of
killers and racist Israel, I hope it does.
Source: Rense.com
Rense.com's disclaimer, which applies equally to this site.
[I make no apologies for publishing this article on One State. As far as I'm concerned, Alan Dershowitz has far removed himself from consideration as a human being entitled to the norms of civilized behaviour. The article was posted by a journalist/academic to the Academics for Peace list, where he was roundly condemned for posting something that obviously did not meet academic standards. The poster subsequently agreed that it was inappropriate for such a list. One listmember, however, wrote the following:
Dershowitz uses lies to attack the character of others. No, I don't believe that we should do the same thing. However, I believe that his character, or lack of the same, is certainly a central issue. If it can be verified that he has viciously assaulted women, used his legal prowless to harass a defenseless ex wife, etc., I believe these actions would strike at the heart of his character, ethics, morals, etc. in which I believe this man is certainly lacking.If true, I certainly believe this man should be held accountable to the same standards to which he professes to hold others. His portrayal of President Carter as an antisemite is one example of outrageous lies cobbled together to attack the character of someone who has been trying to bring peace to the Middle East for decades.
Dershowitz' flawed character is getting thousands of innocent people killed and he certainly should be held accountable to the same standard he professes to hold others.
Bob Kirkconnell, Academics for Justice, Veterans for Peace, Palestine Media Watch
I rest my case. - Roger Tucker, Editor]