Every American should be appalled at this selective prosecution. Today, the target is Trump. Tomorrow, it may be a Democrat. Some had asked whether a jury selected in Manhattan, which voted overwhelmingly against Trump, could be fair in judging the former president. But now that…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: Trump’s New York Trial Is A Stupendous Legal Catastrophe
The chants and signs in support of Hamas are becoming increasingly dangerous. They go well beyond supporting the people in Gaza, or even opposing Israel’s right to exist. Some now defend the murders and rapes committed by Hamas and demand even more violence against Israeli…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: How Many Campus Protesters Will Turn Terrorist Themselves?
He condemns ‘the antisemitic protests,’ then mumbles words of equivocation. President Biden opened his campaign-announcement video in 2019 by excoriating Donald Trump for suggesting “a moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those with the courage to stand against it.” He was referring to Mr. Trump’s remarks…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: Biden Has a ‘Very Fine People’ Moment
The First Amendment protects the right to say idiotic things, but the marketplace of ideas also requires that speakers be held accountable for the words they speak, especially if they are hateful ones. The demonstrations currently taking place on many Ivy League campuses are not…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: Ivy League Anti-Israel Protests Could Prove More Dangerous Than January 6 Or Charlottesville
“The crimes committed by the Germans are horrible and one hears on every corner of the misery and losses they have intentionally brought over the peoples. The strangest thing is that even the better people among the Germans are not conscious of their heavy responsibility…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: The ‘Better’ Civilians of Gaza
As a matter of law and morality, Israel is entitled to respond to this act of war by overwhelming, even disproportionate, force against Iranian military targets. Iran declared war on Israel by sending more than 300 bombs in Israel’s direction, aimed at civilian as well…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: Why Is Biden Stopping Israel From Attacking Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program?