Finkelstein Challenges Dershowitz Over Joan Peters Citations

to show you

Show me one sentence that parallels-

I am going to show you.

Okay.

I think I have, I think I made available the charts to

you.

No, I've, no, you've shown me nothing.

I, I composed-

Let, let's start with that.

Okay.

That's a categorical lie.

Wait, Alan, Mr. Dershowitz-

What, what you're hearing now on radio is that a claim that Mr.

Finkelstein made available to me certain charts.

No, I never said-

That is a categorical lie.

Was it, was it to me? To me?

No.

Okay.

Okay, Mr. Dershowitz, I think you had about five minutes

time.

Mm-hmm.

I wasn't looking at the clock. If we're going to have a civil debate,

you're going to have to remain-

But it's not gonna be a debate about me

... you're going to have to, you're going-

Let me be very clear about that

... I'm not debating you.

Okay.

I have no interest in you, Mr. Dershowitz.

Right.

None at all. I'm interested in the scholarship,

and I'm interested in the

facts.

So am I.

And I'm interested in your book.

Now, in 1984, one Joan Peters published a book

called From Time Immemorial.

The book was universally recognized by serious scholars to be a

fraud.

Without wanting to toot my own horn, I'm widely

recognized as the person who exposed the fraud.

I know that book inside out. I read it at least four times, and

I went through all 1,854 footnotes.

I started to read your book, Mr. Dershowitz.

I then came to chapter one, footnotes 10,

footnote 11, footnote 12, footnote

13, footnote 14, footnote

15, footnote 16. All of the quotes are

from Joan Peters. They are so from Joan Peters

that you have a long quote here from Mark Twain on

pages 23 to 24.

Mm-hmm.

I turn to Joan Peters, page 159 to 60.

The identical quote from Twain with,

with the ellipses-

Is the-

... and the, the ellipses-

Is the Twain quote, is the Twain quote wrong?

With the ellipses-

Is the Twain quote wrong?

Let me finish, sir.

I don't know, but the, the key is-

With the ellipses in the same places.

The identical quote from Twain with the ellipses in the same

places.