New York Times · 2 June 1978
CP-1978-016
Israeli Torture, They Said
Monroe H. Freedman and Alan M. Dershowitz

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Transcribed from the clipping
“Like other Americans concerned with human rights, we have been deeply disturbed by reports of systematic…”
Context added by this archive
Two American law professors answer the torture reports in the New York Times. One of them is Alan Dershowitz, twenty-three years before he argued publicly for judicially supervised torture warrants. The archive keeps the earlier position next to the headline it was written under.
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"Israeli Torture, They Said," New York Times, 2 June 1978. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1978-016. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1978-016
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This record is part of Covering Palestine, an archive of American and Anglophone newspaper clippings about Palestinians, 1799 to 2023. Researched and assembled by Maria Robles.
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