Epstein Secrets

I have engaged in public debates and controversies with some of the most contentious and influential figures of the age including William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Meyer Kahana, Rabbi Adan Steinzaltz, Justice Antonin Scalia, Ken Starr, Elie Wiesel, Vaclav Havel, Golda Meir, Red Auerbach, William Kunstler,

res of the age including William F. Buckley, Noam Chomsky, Rabbi Meyer Kahana, Rabbi Adan Steinzaltz, Justi

n controversial, life. As an adolescent, I was involved in causes such as justice for the Rosenbergs, abolition of the death penalty, and the end of McCarthyism. As a law clerk, during one of the most dramatic periods of our judicial history, I worked on important civil rights and liberties cases, heard the

hed either for denying or proclaiming that an historical event occurred. Several years ago I became embroiled in a heated controversy with Professor Noam Chomsky over the issue of Holocaust denial and the proper role of a civil libertarian in defending the right of Holocaust deniers, without defending the subs

cturer received threats from irate survivors. The University of Lyon, claiming that it could not guarantee his safety, suspended him for a semester. Chomsky sprang to Faurisson’s defense, not only on the issue of free speech, but on the merits of his “scholarship” and of his “character.” Chomsky signed a

decided to strip him of tenure and fire him. It was the first political firmg of a tenured professor by a major university since the terrible days of McCarthyism. I took his case on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union. As the war was winding down and the United States was deciding to withdraw from Vi

owever, the Soviet ploy was beginning to be expropriated by the hard left in the United States and Europe. Hard left intellectuals such as Professors Noam Chomsky of MIT and Richard Falk of Princeton were claiming that the United States was the worst human rights violator in the world.'°° Some hard left lawyers

e darling of the hard left as the result of his anti- Vietnam War activities, began to call both the United States and Israel “criminal” entities.'°' Chomsky notoriously defended the ruthless Cambodian dictator Pol Pot against charges of genocide, insisting that western media reports of millions of murders

of worship; freedom from want; freedom from fear. The enemies of human rights were also clear: fascism, communism, racism, religious discrimination, McCarthyism, authoritanism, slavery, apartheid and other forms of oppression emanating from both the extreme right and left. All good liberals—and my friends, n