Erasing a people by footnote: The case against ‘The Case for Israel’
Alan Dershowitz’s The Case for Israel (2003) is a seminal text in the canon of pro-Israel advocacy, yet it is essential to categorise it correctly from the outset: it is a work of jurisprudence, not historiography. Dershowitz, a celebrated appellate lawyer and Harvard Law professor, approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not as a historian seeking to […]
