Alan Dershowitz, demonised on account of his fine book The Case for Israel by the unlovely trio of Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Alexander Cockburn, writes an excoriating article about this trio which lifts the lid on the wicked lies they tell and the way they have succeeded in polluting public debate for many years:

'The mode of attack is consistent. Chomsky selects the target and directs Finkelstein to probe the writings in minute detail and conclude that the writer didn’t actually write the work, that it is plagiarized, that it is a hoax and a fraud. Cockburn publicizes these “findings,” and then a cadre of fellow travelers bombard the Internet with so many attacks on the target that these attacks jump to the top of Google. Because no one has thus far exposed the pattern, each attack may seem plausible on first impression. But when the pattern is examined and exposed, the entire enterprise becomes clear for what it is: a clear attempt to chill pro-Israel advocacy on university campuses by a form of literary McCarthyism.'

Do read it all.