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SW: add doc on Dersho's distortions
:On a note both humorous and pathetic, Peters, in ''From Time Immemorial'', claiming to be inspired by George Orwell, coins the term "turnspeak" to signal the inversion of reality (pp. 173, 402). Dershowitz, apparently confounded by his massive borrowings from Peters, credits the term "turnspeak" to Orwell, accusing critics of Israel of "deliberately using George Orwell's 'turnspeak'" (p. 57) and "Orwellian turnspeak" (p. 153). Is this scandalous scholarship, or is it plagiarism, or is it both?<ref>[http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=1]</ref>
==A history of distortions==
Omar Baddar, a political scientist and human rights activist, documents many distortions and shoddy/selective use of quotations for cheap political/propaganda purposes.<ref>Omar Baddar, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZTai2w8x9Y&feature=player_embedded Alan Dershowitz Exposed], 12 February 2012.</ref> For example, Dershowitz distorts Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statement about Iran's right to develop nuclear technology for peaceful purposes into a "nuclear weapons program".
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