The Case for Israel

Name: The Case for Israel
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Alan M. Dershowitz
ISBN: 9781494589479

Author: Alan M. Dershowitz

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 11 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/10/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Political Science, World Politics

Synopsis

Widely respected as a civil libertarian, legal educator, and defense attorney extraordinaire, Alan M. Dershowitz has also been a passionate though not uncritical supporter of Israel. In this book, he presents an ardent defense of Israel's rights, supported by indisputable evidence. Dershowitz takes a close look at what Israel's accusers and detractors are saying about this war-torn country. He accuses those who attack Israel of international bigotry and backs up his argument with hard facts.

About Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native who has been called "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer" and one of its "most distinguished defenders of individual rights." He is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Trials of Zion, Rights from Wrongs, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah. Alan is also an emeritus professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura

Some of these reviews inaccurately call this book "biased", which confuses me. Dershowitz quotes from historical documents...mostly from the essential British Mandate period. Just because history happens to be in Israel's favor, and not in the favor of the Palestinian Arabs (the word used to refer t......more

Goodreads review by Gary

Interestingly the viciousness spat out by Isreal-haters about this book , in the reviews here that are against the book, simply strenghthen the case about just how murderous in their hate , the loathsome enemies of Israel are. Alan Dershowitz explains in this succinct and balanced work, the situation......more

Goodreads review by Barry

Tremendous resource to educate self and others......more

Goodreads review by John

Of course the author has his biases. The book is needed because "The new anti-Semitism" has been defined as people who will accept a world with Jews but not a world with Israel. Dershowitz is a mainstream liberal and not an egghead like Noam Chomsky or Norman Finklestein. As a trained lawyer, Dersho......more