UPDATE:
In a classic foot-in-mouth error, it seems I do not have the evidence. I did a once over of the stuff I had on my digital camera and it seems my battery may have died before the Dershowitz comments. I had the backlight off on the camera in order to save the battery; unfortunately, it seems because of that I didn’t see the camera go off. I will give it another look when I have a chance but I may just be SOL.

I sent this to the UC Press. I’m going to be sending it to Dershowitz soon and posting video/audio of the whole engagement.

To Whom It May Concern:

My name is Steve Gherebean and I’m a student of the UC system at Davis. Recently, Norman Finkelstein, an author who wrote Beyond Chutzpah and published it through UCP. From my understanding of the facts, UC Press required that Finkelstein remove the direct claims that Alan Dershowitz plagiarized his book or didn’t write it himself after Dershowitz provided the handwritten original for review. If that is correct, would it be a breach of the Finkelstein-UCP agreement for Finkelstein to present those ideas verbally on a UC campus as he so did on Wednesday, March 17, 2007? I can and will provide recorded evidence of this at your request. It seems to me that if one branch of the University of California has an agreement with someone, that agreement should hold true on engagements held with or on any part of the University of California.

In his speech at UC Davis, Finkelstein didn’t simply imply that Dershowitz had plagerized A Case for Israel, he actually said it and past it on as truth. I will be forwarding this email to Alan Dershowitz as well and supplying him with the evidence of, what I would consider, this breach of agreement.

Sincerely,
Steve Gherebean

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