George Bisharat’s Kangaroo Court
George Bisharat, a law professor at UC Hastings, has the very unfortunate habit of leveling blatantly false charges in his anti-Israel op-eds, which just as unfortunately sometimes get published in major newspapers. New York Times
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George Bisharat, a law professor at UC Hastings, has the very unfortunate habit of leveling blatantly false charges in his anti-Israel op-eds, which just as unfortunately sometimes get published in major newspapers. CAMERA Column in Jerusalem Post: “‘NY Times’ Trigger Happy on Israel”
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