The Case for Israel

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The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University, attempts to refute common criticisms of Israel, and defends it as an example of a successful Western-style democracy coping with the challenges of Islamic terrorism.

In opposition, Norman Finkelstein, who teaches political theory at DePaul University in Chicago, claims the book is a hoax and that some of its citations are plagiarized from the book From Time Immemorial, leading to the Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair. Finkelstein devotes much of his book Beyond Chutzpah to responding to Dershowitz's arguments with documentation from human rights groups and historians. The book The Case Against Israel, published in 2006, was also written in response.

Micheal Neumann, professor of philosophy at Trent University, wrote a book entitled The Case against Israel, which criticizes Dershowitz.

Natalie Portman helped to research the text during her time at Harvard.

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