When law professors believe Naomi Klein

Hillel Neuer, UN Watch:

Last month’s Harper’s magazine published a revisionist history by Naomi Klein of the 2001 Durban conference and its 2009 would-be sequel, Durban II. My contemporary and fellow Jewish Montrealer told a great story — except that it was entirely fictional, a figment of her rabidly anti-Western and anti-Israel imagination.

For reasons having to do with either the fact that no one reads Harper’s any more, or Naomi Klein’s reputation for making things up, her essay went almost completely ignored, apart from the usual fringe blogs on the extreme left.

Consequently, I didn’t see the need in doing more to correct the historical record than publishing this op-ed, pointing out a few of her article’s numerous distortions – little things like glossing over Col. Qaddafi’s Geneva agent being the organizer of the April 2009 conference — and spotlighting Klein’s three-decade obsession with accusing Jews of being racist, her paranoid ravings about Israel being wicked, depraved and out to get her, and the falsification of a key part of her official biography. (Klein then lashed out, attacking my op-ed as “a wacky stalker article,” but failed to heed admirer Philip Weiss’ request that she explain herself. Turns out the fearless investigative journalist of evil capitalists was outraged that anyone would dare to apply the same scrutiny to her dissembling.)

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