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3 unusual facts about The Case for Israel


The Case for Israel

Edward Said and Noam Chomsky are among the critics that he quotes the most heavily.

The research assistants mentioned in the book's acknowledgements include Natalie Hershlag, the birthname of the actress Natalie Portman.

For instance, Dershowitz once (accurately) quotes a remark by Mark Twain using the same ellipses as Peters did when she used the same quotation in her book; in Finkelstein's view, this constituted plagiarism because Dershowitz cited Twain but not Peters in his book.



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