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Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and is the author of “Guilt by Accusation” and host of the “The Dershow” podcast. Follow Alan Dershowitz on Twitter (@AlanDersh) and on Facebook (@AlanMDershowitz).
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Expect that those investigators who favored accusing the President with obstruction will lay out their case against Trump. This raises the legal and ethical question of whether it is proper for prosecutors publicly to disclose the evidence and arguments against the subject of a criminal investigation who is not being charged.
No country in history has ever given back to a sworn enemy militarily essential territory that has been captured in a defensive war.
When Jewish power and influence are used in the cause of peace and justice -- as it is today -- there is nothing to be ashamed of. It should be a source of pride.
History has proven that Jews need more power and influence than other groups to secure their safety. During the 1930s and early 1940s, Jews had morality on their side, but they lacked the power and influence to save six million of their brothers and sisters from systematic murder.
When Hitler said, "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," he wasn't referring to his car manufacturing. He was referring to Ford's anti-Semitic ideology that eventuated in the genocide of six million Jews
The reality is that Israeli Arabs have more rights than Arabs anywhere in the Muslim world. They vote freely, have their own political parties, speak openly against the Israeli government and are beneficiaries of affirmative action in Israeli universities. She says there are "streets for Jews only," which is a categorical lie.
The ACLU has been absolutely silent in regard to the questionable tactics employed by Mueller. They, too, would have been up in arms had these tactics been employed against their favorite candidate and mine, Hillary Clinton. Their silence speaks volumes about their partisanship and lack of neutral standards of civil liberties.
People who support Louis Farrakhan because of the alleged good he does for the Black community and despite his overt anti-Semitism are complicit in bigotry, and those who march under the banner of such bigots are only one degree removed from such complicity.
To single out only the "Jew among nations," and not the dozens of far more serious violators of human rights is bigotry pure and simple, and those who support BDS only against Israel are guilty of bigotry.
Contrast what Israel does with how the Palestinians treat terrorists who willfully target and kill Jewish children, women and other civilians. The Palestinian Authority pays their families rewards – in effect bounties -- for their willful acts of murder. Hamas promotes and lionizes terrorists who kill Jews. But you would not know any of that from reading the one-sided New York Times screed....All in all, it is a shockingly irresponsible report.
Mueller should be judged by how successful he has been in satisfying his central mission. Judged by that standard and based on what we now know, he seems to be an abysmal failure.
When the ACLU's national political director and former Democratic Party operative Faiz Shakir was asked why the ACLU got involved in the Kavanaugh confirmation fight, he freely admitted, "People have funded us and I think they expect a return."
That mendacious and dangerous phrase, "the banality of evil," should be struck from the historical vocabulary of the Holocaust and the trial of Eichmann, lest we look in the future for banality and miss the brilliance of those who would repeat Eichmann's crimes.
There are not "good people" on the side of anti-Semitism, any more than there are "good people" on the side of white supremacy. There is no place for a double standard when it comes to anti-Semitism
Chomsky may be intelligent when it comes to linguistics, but his statements regarding Israel, Russia, and the Holocaust are simply counter-factual. There is no other word for his bizarre views, if he actually believes them. If he does not, then there is another word that aptly describes his statements: bigotry.
Justice Kavanaugh is extraordinarily well qualified by his educational and academic background and judicial history. He should be given a hearing and asked probing questions about his judicial philosophy and his approach to constitutional construction and precedent. Senators should approach this process with an open mind.
The cruel reality is that every time Israel accidentally kills a Gaza civilian, Israel loses and Hamas wins. Israelis grieve every civilian death its army accidentally causes and Hamas benefits. That is why Hamas encourages its women and children to become martyrs.
Let John Bolton be judged by his own statements and actions, for which he needs no defense from me. But let not the media indulge in the discredited tactics of guilt-by-association, distortion and outright deceit based on ideological or political differences.
The raid on President Trump's lawyer dramatically demonstrates the need for new legislation to assure that no FBI agents or US attorneys ever get to read privileged communications between a lawyer and a client, a doctor and a patient, a priest and penitent, or a husband and a wife.
Israel integrated its brothers and sisters from the Arab and Muslim world. The Arab world put its Palestinian brothers and sisters in refugee camps, treating them as political pawns — and festering sores —in its persistent war against the Jewish state.
I find it unprofessional, unethical and absurd for any mental health professional to offer a diagnosis or psychiatric prediction regarding President Donald Trump.
President Trump's act of justice and compassion teaches that even in this age of hyper-partisanship, there are issues of simple justice that can unite diverse elements and no one should ever give up on the quest for justice
West argued that BDS would encourage Israel to make peace with the Palestinians. I replied Israel would never be blackmailed into compromising its security, and that the Palestinians are disincentivized into making compromises by the fantasy that they will get a state through economic and cultural extortion.
America often stands alone with Israel against the world. The bias of the international community against the nation state of the Jewish people has been long standing and evident, especially at the UN.
Pres. Trump's decision merely restores the balance that was undone by Pres. Obama's decision to engineer a one-sided Security Council Resolution that changed the status quo.
If there is any change to the status quo, let the blame lie at the hands of President Obama for his cowardly decision to wait until he was a lame-duck president to get even with PM Netanyahu. Pres. Trump deserves praise for restoring balance in negotiations with Israel and the Palestinians.
Now ten members of the "progressive caucus" of the Democratic Party are trying to give these terrorist leaders another reason for using even younger terrorists to kill even more innocent Israeli civilians.
The editor is not merely criticizing Israel. He is deliberately lying about its actions and policies in order to delegitimize its very existence.
Not surprisingly, it was only an op-ed writer for the Forward who not only denied that the imagery was anti-Semitic, but actually justified it. Would the Forward publish an op-ed that justified comparable images of women, blacks or gays?
For these radicals, it is not about what Israel does; it is about what Israel is: the nation state of the Jewish people. To many on the hard left, Israel is an imperialistic, apartheid, genocidal, and colonialist enterprise that must be destroyed.
By withdrawing from UNESCO – again – President Trump is sending a powerful message to the international community: that we will no longer tolerate international organizations that serve as forums for Jew-bashing.
No one who supports statehood for the Palestinians can morally oppose Kurdish independence. But they do, because it is double-standard hypocrisy, and not morality, that frames the debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What the hard right and hard left share in common is special bigotry toward Jews: the neo-Nazi right hates the Jewish people; and the hard left hates the nation state of the Jewish people and those Jews who support it
President Trump must stop being even-handed in his condemnations. He should focus his condemnation on extreme right wing bigots who speak and act in his name, and leave it to those of us on the left to focus our condemnation on left wing extremists and bigots.
The linking of unrelated "victimizations," reflects a broader trend in hard-left politics. Increasingly, radical activists demand that the demonization of "Zionists" be featured in the package of causes that must to be embraced by anyone claiming the label of "progressive."
The civil liberties of all Americans are at stake. I will not be silenced by false and unethical charges of racism from people who are deliberately distorting my views for partisan political purposes.
Boycotting a troubled nation which has become a pariah among the hard-left is not the appropriate response to the Israeli government's recent decisions regarding religion. The answer is not disengagement, but rather greater engagement
The general idea of a two-state solution does not specify one state would be for the Jewish people, the other one for the .Palestinians--who continue to want no state for the Jewish people more than they want a state for Palestinian Arabs.
If Corbyn were against blacks, women, Muslims or gays, Sanders would not have campaigned for him. Yet he is comfortable campaigning for Corbyn who has made a career out of condemning Zionists by which he means Jews.
People on both sides of the political and ideological spectrum must have the same zero tolerance for anti-Semitism as they do for sexism, racism and homophobia.
One of the biggest criticisms of the "Corbynization" has been the mainstreaming of traditional anti-Semitism. England's chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, has called the problem within the Labour party "severe."
The world has rewarded terrorism while punishing those who try to fight it by reasonable means. It began with Yasser Arafat and Palestinian terrorist groups choosing to employ terrorism as a tactic.
Though Spicer got his facts wrong, there was no hint of anti-Semitism in his historical mistake. He quickly and fully apologized which should have ended the matter but his political enemies decided to exploit his mistake
The essence of anti-Semitism is the bigoted claim that if there is a problem, then Jews must be its cause.
By suggesting that I opposed the travel ban “because of [my] own bias” toward Israel – and by repeating this throughout the segment – Flannery engaged in the old anti-Semitic trope: Dual-loyalty
Would anyone call it a smear if a candidate’s history of sexism, racism or homophobia had been exposed? Why, then, is it a smear to have raised questions based on Ellison’s past?
If Ellison is elected DNC chairman, Dershowitz will quit the Democratic party after 60 years because "My loyalty to my country and my principles and my heritage exceeds any loyalty to my party.
The current Lord Balfour' claims Israel's at fault and the cause of increasing anti-Semitism and has declared his unwillingness to participate in the Centenary Celebration of the Balfour Declaration,
Trump may be telling the Palestinians that if they want a state they have to show up at the negotiating table and bargain for it. No one is going to hand it to them on a silver platter
Trump must reassure Netanyahu that he will apply pressure -- perhaps through our Sunni allies -- on the Palestinian Authority, and not only on Israel, as the Obama Administration did.
Obama repeatedly stabbed Israel in the back, beginning with his one-sided Cairo speech, the Iran deal and culminating in refusing to veto the recent UN Security Council resolution. A legacy of failure
So, let the president appoint his son-in-law, without pay, to this important position as senior adviser, and let’s all hope, for the benefit of the country, that it is a wise decision.
Ellison represents the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, just when the party -- if it is to win again -- must move to the center
I will not join the chorus of condemnation that employs this radioactive term against Bannon without compelling evidence.
Even if Trump had lost by a narrow margin, the fact that he got nearly 60 million votes would still be significant in telling us about the current mindset of the American people.
This election revealed that there are deep divisions within the American electorate. Some of these divisions are reasonable and others are divisions across impermissible lines. The nation must heal.
Pres. Obama should resist any temptation, during his final weeks in office, to change longstanding American policy: that only direct negotiations between the parties will achieve a lasting peace.
As the election draws closer, the Obama administration is sending strong signals that it may make a major push to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the United Nations
Shimon Peres was both a man of principle and of pragmatism. He understood that morality required the strength to defend it,
The reality is that polling is incapable of accurately predicting the outcome of elections like this one, where so many voters are angry, resentful, emotional, negative, and frightened.
Applying "intersectionality"—a pseudo-academic theory asserting all social justice movements are inexorably linked, anti-Israel activists have made opposition to Israel and support for BDS a litmus test
By implicating Israel in the killings of blacks by the police, SJP is engaging in the old trope of blaming Jews for systemic and far-reaching societal problems.
Elie Wiesel was one of the most important people in the post-WW II period. He spoke truth to power, He spoke up for those for whom no one else championed. For that he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Governors and legislatures are morally and politically right to 'counter'-boycott BDS."
Cuomo’s anti-BDS executive action mirrors those of the states that refused to do business with North Carolina because of its transgender discrimination.
Clinton should be wary: any effort to embrace the 'Sanderistas will backfire.'
Proving the absurdity of relativism, Zogby, a major supporter of the BDS movement is a moderate in comparison to West whose anti-Israel rhetoric is obscene
My visit to Europe made one thing unmistakably clear: if there is any group in the world that needs a safe homeland—a sanctuary from bigotry and hatred—it is the Jewish people
After the Holocaust, the world collectively said "Never again." Despite this "oath" mass murders, war crimes and even genocides have been permitted to occur again and again
It would have been impossible to carry out the Holocaust without the complicity of so many governments, groups, and individuals.
Obama owes the American people, and Benjamin Netanyahu, an explanation for his apparent hypocrisy and inconsistency.
Bernie Sanders’ ignorance and bias with regards to Israel have been on full view lately.
It was a mistake to have filed sexual misconduct accusations against Dershowitz and the charges are hereby withdrawn
Obama&supporters do themselves no favors by vulgar, personal attacks against those opposing the deal
Burden of proof's on Obama to demonstrate the deal "prevents" Iran from "obtaining a nuclear weapon"
Revealing intelligence assessments that suggest Netanyahu is bluffing only encourages the Iranians.
National Lawyers Guild:Sworn enemy of Israel & the legal arm of Palestinian terrorism since the '70s
Just as we would never grant legitimacy to ISIS, we should not grant legitimacy to Hamas.
"Continuum of Civilianality:" Who is a civilian and who is a combatant is often a matter of degree.
Re-posted with permission from The Gatestone Institute How many times have you heard on television or read in the media that the Gaza Strip is "the most densely populated area in the world"? Repeating this statement, however, does not make it true. There are dense parts of Gaza, especially Gaza City, Beit Hanoun and Khan […]
Qatar's wealth and Turkey's size should not preclude us from telling it as it is: Qatar and Turkey are among the worst villains in the Gaza tragedy.
Many American experts—diplomatic, nuclear, political, economic—believe that even the risks to the United States exceed the benefits.
The immediate choice for the world today is not between diplomacy and preventive war. We have a third option: to maintain or even increase the sanctions.
If the media and the international community continue to enable these tyrannical regimes, the cynical dead baby strategy will expand in scope.
The very word "hero" was used by the Jordanian justice minister in joining the chorus calling for the release of a convicted terrorist.
Hamas wants Palestinians civilians, especially babies, to be killed precisely so that they can display the kind of photographs that were shown around the world.
A 'pinkwashing' conference - focused on how Israel allegedly uses its protection of gay rights to cover up its treatment of Arabs - is being sponsored by the Gay and Lesbian Studies Center at CUNY's Graduate Center this April.
If Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga were to be elected pope, much of the good work done by recent popes in building bridges between the Catholic Church and the Jews would be endangered.
What happened at Brooklyn College demonstrates the wisdom of keeping academic departments from sponsoring non-academic hate fests, such as the BDS event.
Many pro-Israel young academics refuse to speak up out of fear that they will be subjected to the same kind of McCarthyite tactics that I am subjected to.
What if the economics department had officially endorsed Mitt Romney during last year's election?
The burden is now on Senator Hagel to persuade the Senate, the American people, and the leaders of Iran that he is fully supportive of the President's commitment to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
So let no one praise a nation that murdered a million Jewish babies and children for shedding crocodile tears over the plight of the poor little baby boy who, following a many thousand year old tradition, is circumcised 8 days after birth. Every good person should condemn Germany for what really lies at the heart of efforts to ban circumcision—old-fashioned anti-Semitism, a term coined by Germans for Germans and against Jews.
Alan Dershowitz writes that President Obama must make it clear that he has rejected the view of those who are prepared to contain a nuclear Iran and that he will indeed employ military action if that is the only option other than a nuclear Iran.
J Street should get out of the business of telling Israel how to balance existential risks regarding the security of its citizens. It should stop undercutting American policy with regard to Iran. And as an organization that claims it is both pro-Israel and pro-peace, it should recognize that its superficial approach to this complex problem is bad for peace, bad for Israel and bad for American efforts to prevent a nuclear Iran without the need for a military attack.
I will vote for the presidential candidate who I believe is best for America and for the world, and in making that calculation I will consider their policies toward Israel because I believe that strong support for Israel's security is good for America and for the world.
Republicans are trying to woo away Jews who voted for Barack Obama in 2008, hoping they have experienced "buyer's remorse." I, for one, have experienced no such remorse. I have gotten from President Obama pretty much what I expected when I voted for him.
I am a Democrat and do not agree with many of Sheldon Adelson's political views, but I think it's outrageous for the National Jewish Democratic Council to level unfounded allegations against Adelson. I don't know who Harris purports to speak for as President of the National Jewish Democratic Council, but his partisan gamesmanship is an embarrassment to many Jewish Democrats.
In a speech delivered in Tehran, Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi accused the Jewish people of spreading illegal drugs around the world, killing Black babies, starting the Bolshevik Revolution and causing many of the world's other ills.
There is an appropriate response to Walker's bigotry. The publisher who sought to publish Walker's book in Hebrew should simply go ahead and do it—without her permission and over her objection. Walker could then sue for copyright infringement, and the issue would be squarely posed: can copyright laws, which are designed to encourage the promotion of literature, be used to censor writings and prevent certain people from accessing it, based upon the language they read.
August 7, 2026 
