Alan Dershowitz
By Alan Dershowitz
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BINTEL BRIEF Alan Dershowitz helps out with a High Holiday dilemma
The lawyer and retired law school professor, guest-hosting as a Bintel Brief columnist, weighs in on canceling classes
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Opinion Alan Dershowitz: I Am Not A Mouthpiece For Trump
The Forward falsely described me as an “informal adviser” to President Trump and as a “conservative.” I am neither. I am an objective commentator who has publicly criticized many of Trump’s policies, including on immigration, revocation of security clearances, Charlottesville and other issues. I have defended his civil liberties in precisely the same way I…
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Opinion Alan Dershowitz: The Constitutional Case Against Impeaching Trump
The following is an excerpt from Alan Dershowitz’s forthcoming book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump.” On the basis of the constitutional text and the facts we currently have in the public record, the case against impeaching and removing President Trump is quite strong. In my forthcoming book, “The Case Against Impeaching Trump,” I lay out…
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Letters Alan Dershowitz: Enough With The Anti-Trump McCarthyism!
I don’t know what is worse about Talia Lavin‘s article calling me a Trump Jew: is it her blatant McCarthyism or her insistence that Jews behave like “guests” in an alien country? Let’s begin with her mendacious McCarthyism: I am not a Trump Jew. I voted, campaigned and contributed against Trump and for Hillary Clinton….
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Opinion Alan Dershowitz: My Take On Al Jazeera’s Israel Lobby Documentary
Clayton Swisher has produced a film for Al Jazeera that used a Jewish undercover journalist pretending to be a Zionist to infiltrate and report on pro-Israel organizations. Now, in an op ed in these pages, Swisher is trying to use me to provide a “qualified seal of approval” for the unfairly one-sided video. But he…
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Letters Alan Dershowitz: The Other Things I Said To The Forward At The ZOA Gala
Dear Editor, At the Zionist Organization of America’s (ZOA) annual gala held in Manhattan last Sunday evening, I had a conversation with the Forward’s opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon. Ungar-Sargon proceeded to reference some of our conversation in an article she wrote covering the event. However, her piece is missing context. First, she wrote that I…
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Opinion Yes, that cartoon of me was anti-Semitic
When the official newspaper of Berkeley published a color caricature of me as a spider-like creature with one leg stomping on a Palestinian child and another holding an IDF soldier spilling the blood of an unarmed Palestinian, there was universal condemnation of what was widely seen as a throwback to the anti-Semitic imagery of the…
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Opinion B’nai Jeshurun Should Rethink Rash Statehood Support
Immediately after the General Assembly voted to accord the Palestinian Authority observer status as a state within the 1967 borders, the rabbis and lay-leadership of congregation B’nai Jeshurun, a popular synagogue in Manhattan praised the U.N. and described its vote as “a great moment for us as citizens of the world.” When they made this…
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