Israel has long been the primary supporter of the Palestinian people, both on the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip. Israelis have opened their borders to Palestinian workers, to whom they pay high wages. They have accepted Palestinian patients, including even terrorists, into their…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: Israel Is Helping Palestinians More Than Those Who Condemn Israel
Long before Donald Trump‘s hush-money trial concluded, I predicted that his conviction was a forgone conclusion – despite the obvious weakness of the case against him. Had the prosecution been brought in another part of the country, or even in another part of New York…
Read More ALAN DERSHOWITZ: The Exact Courtroom Moment I Knew Trump Was Doomed What Elie Wiesel once said about the Holocaust has proved prescient: ‘Believe the threats of your enemies more than the promises of your friends.’ Hamas is better off today than it was on October 6. By murdering, raping and kidnapping nearly 1,500 innocent Israeli babies,…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: By Rewarding Hamas For October 7 Atrocities, The World Is Incentivizing Their Repetition
I have observed and participated in trials throughout the world. I have seen justice and injustice in China, Russia, Ukraine, England, France, Italy, Israel, as well as in nearly 40 of our 50 states. But in my 60 years as a lawyer and law professor,…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: What I Saw Shocked Me In Trump Court Room According to Israeli and international sources, the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor is considering the issuance of warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders based on the Hamas attack of Oct. 7 and Israel’s response. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) has demanded the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide. But there is a…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: The ICC Lacks Jurisdiction Over Israel In Gaza If you were flipping between CNN and Fox News following the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels in the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump, you would have had the impression that the CNN commentator, who professed to be reporting what happened in the…
Read More Alan Dershowitz: Why Trials Like Trump’s Must Be Televised 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