ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Why Anti-Semitism Is Moving Toward The Mainstream. “To understand why these absurd and reprehensible views, once reserved for the racist fringes of academia and politics, are moving closer to the mainstream, consider the attitudes of two men, one an academic, the other a politician, toward those who express or endorse such bigotry. The academic is Prof. Brian Leiter. The politician is Ron Paul.” Leiter might get over being called an anti-semite, but he’ll never forgive Dershowitz for calling him “obscure.”