In the book, as well as to last week’s standing room-only audience in the science center, Dershowitz urges students to take the reins of the debate. “Students are far more willing to speak their minds,” he says, adding that he wants to make the book as accessible to them as possible.

To this end, Dershowitz says he is donating royalties from the book to a campaign supporting Israel on college campuses. He says that he is also making free copies available, “particularly on campuses that would not usually receive them.”

Dershowitz says that the even now his book is incomplete. “I think of [it] as a work in progress,” he says. He plans to have a website for the book, and to add various articles whenever there’s a new development in the Arab-Israeli conflict.

In addition, Dershowitz is planning to speak at campuses and to Jewish organizations around the country this fall. “I’ve gotten probably fifty invitations,” he says. However, because of his teaching responsibilities, he plans to have many of his speeches broadcast to audiences via satellite.

Dershowitz says he is pleased with the book’s reception. “I’m very happy that the book is having the effect that I thought it would,” he says. Once his schedule clears, he plans to continue on his next book, which deals with preemption, and specifically “when it’s appropriate for governments to take preemptive measures.”

—Staff writer Jayme J. Herschkopf can be reached at herschk@fas.harvard.edu.