“Dr. Martin was born... into a family that was “half Protestant, half Catholic, with a strain of Jewish, and always fighting.” ”
p. 372, Malachi Martin interviewed by John F. Baker (16 February 1976), The Author Speaks: Selected PW Interviews 1967-1976 by Publishers Weekly Editors and Contributors
Drag Queen Sings Ave Maria in LGBT Mess presided over by Cardinal Sérgio da Rocha
“The Church is called to be a merciful mother; it suffers with the violence perpetrated against the people. […] Violence against the LGBTI+ population is a sad signal of a society which is used to constant violations of life, of dignity, of the rights of so many victims of brutal death,” Cardinal Archbishop Sérgio da Rocha of Salvador
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1) He started out a yeshiva bocher in Brooklyn, NY; then he graduated first in his class at Yale, and became the youngest tenured professor at Harvard Law School (HLS); https://t.co/MDapCQgvfR
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
2) He divorced his “plain Jane” Orthodox Jewish wife (in search of a trophy wife in Cambridge) and he managed to get full custody of their two children (unheard of back then, when the mother always got custody);
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
3) His betrayed and bereft ex-spouse then jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge, that then became the eternal skeleton in his closet (Poe’s “tell-tale heart”);
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
In psychic revenge, he then started defending pornographers, spousal murderers and batterers, as well as rapists and other sexual predators (but the Times always dubbed him a “famous civil libertarian”);
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
5) In the end it all caught up with him because he defended Trump (in order to secure a pardon if he got convicted for sexual assault);
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
6) Woke Harvard Law School and Martha’s Vineyard could abide everything (his lying defense of sexual criminals, his lying defense of Israeli murderers and torturers, his destruction of “little people” who got in his way), but not this!
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
7) So he became a pariah in respectable woke circles, as Martha Minow stage-managed his “retirement” from Harvard Law School, and David Remnick’s New Yorker bravely ran a hit-piece on him;
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
8) He’s currently buried in a mountain of lawsuits that will no doubt follow him to his grave, and–isn’t it perfect?–“He’s now mostly retired and lives in Miami.”
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
9) It’s a cautionary tale in the perils of fame-seeking and the fickleness of woke culture; there are fates worse than laboring away in obscurity.https://t.co/MDapCQgvfR
— Norman Finkelstein (@normfinkelstein) May 27, 2021
p. vii of The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz thanks Natalie Hershlag (aka actress Natalie Portman) in the Acknowledgments
