I guess I was using the word “egregiously” in the second sense (”conspicuously”) without its “especially” connotation,” ie, without meaning “conspicuously bad”. See Merriam-Webster online: “…2): conspicuous; especially: conspicuously bad.”

I certainly did not intend to sound like I was apologizing.

And I certainly did mean my words kindly. On the other hand, my two experiences with submitting my works to DV – both were met with total silence – did little to reinforce your kindly description of your fellow DV editors.

Please be assured that I too have a sense of social conscience and justice, and it has spurred me to continue writing despite not having been published since I was eight (I’m now sixty-five years old). In fact I have very radical politics, and it is because I perceive a whole new “anti-corporatist” movement among published writers that I’ve taken hope anew, as it were, and begun posting comments here and there.

“Dear post-onlys,

You don’t deceive yourself and believe
Anyone who’s paid to write
Really pays attention
To the words
We post

In any personal way,

Do you?”

This is not the entire poem.

I have read subsequently your own extensive posts engaging posters to other articles of yours than this one.

You obviously very much do pay attention to posts submitted to your articles, and at this point I really couldn’t care less whether DV is paying you. Thank you for your range of interests, for your courage, and for your remarkable series on the Kalaallit Nunaat and Thule AFB. And thank you for your willingness to jump into the fray and engage us “post onlys” in a very personal way.

But, I consider it very ironic that THE ISRAEL LOBBY, whose POWER he once denied (as Chomsky too still completely denies), or said that PROOF of the lobby’s power is indeterminable, is the very lobby that has DESTROYED his career at DePaul University (a CATHOLIC university –not a state or Jewish one– previously known for its supposed liberalness at that!).

(Finkelstein had just *partially*, say about 30%, shifted to my position –see “The Left and the Israel Lobby”, online– as a result of our previous private analytical discussions.)

Furthermore, anybody at St. Paul’s who feels the leadership is corrupt, should resign or leave that institution. People can vote with action rather than indulging in fruitless argumentation. Again: there is no way to win the battle since the leadership will remain corrupted. So the best thing to do is walk away and find institutions more worthy of one’s participation either as student, staff or faculty.

Einfach!

Hahaha! That’s rich!

“…He (Dersh) didn’t dare attack DePaul himself, so he provoked Finkelstein into committing professional suicide….”

Moreover, you can’t win a fight with the Catholic Church. A billion people worldwide. 50% of the world’s Christians. 64 million Americans. You can’t win against the Catholic Church. Derschowitz knew that. He didn’t dare attack DePaul himself, so he provoked Finkelstein into committing professional suicide. Double whammy, in fact! Finkelstein’s violent and irrational reaction is proving Derschowitz’s point that Finkelstein is both a poor academic and a “troublemaker”.

Vincentian values. Who are you to dictate their content, Mr Petersen? Are you thinking of joining the order? The Catholic Church has its position on Palestine and the Israelis/Israel Lobby don’t like it one bit, but what Finkelstein wants is to force the Church to give him a platform to express HIS views. That is not appropriate in a Catholic university.

The freedom at issue here is the freedom of the Catholic Church to run its universities as it sees fit.

By the way, if Yeshiva University thinks so highly of Norman Finkelstein, why have they not offered him a job? As I said, Derschowitz must be laughing his head off!