The Case for Israel is a 2003 book by Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard University.

In a New York Times review, Ethan Bronner called the book a polemic that argues "vehemently––and fairly convincingly––that contemporary European and Arab discourse on the Middle East is indefensibly unbalanced against Israel" without dismissing the scholarship of the New Historians.

[7] After a heated exchange between the two on Democracy Now!, in which Finkelstein repeatedly accused Dershowitz of plagiarism and questioned his credentials to teach at Harvard University,[8] Finkelstein released a book, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, whose second part is about The Case for Israel.

The book lists many examples of text that Finkelstein claims Dershowitz to have lifted from Peters.

Finkelstein later agreed to delete all references to "plagiarism" from his book, instead writing that Dershowitz "lifted" or "appropriated" text from Peters, but said he only did it to avoid a lawsuit.