Dershowitz’s bluntness makes him the lesser moral problem than cultivated Ignatieff.
Evidence
One might dismiss Dershowitz as a propagandist for the Jewish apartheid state, a committed Zionist, and argue that he is merely taking advantage of a frightened nation to score quick political points that support his world view. One might also argue that he is not really approaching this from an academic point of view, but rather, from a legal-technocratic angle. For a genuine intellectual discussion of torture we can turn to Michael Ignatieff—essayist, novelist, broadcaster, biographer of Isaiah Berlin, recipient of numerous literary prizes, former director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, and current leader of the Liberal Party in Canada: a major North American intellectual, widely read, deeply cultivated, and marvelously eloquent. — Hamid Dabashi, Brown Skin, White Masks, 275