And the winner is: Hamas!

What will happen if Hamas is allowed to win this war? Read more

The wrong university presidents at the wrong time

The forced resignation of the president of the University of Pennsylvania is a good first step in dealing with a far more pervasive problem in higher education. Read more

Alan Dershowitz: Today’s Nazis are Hamas

Among the groups that have supported the rapes, beheadings, burning alive, mass murder and kidnappings of Jews by Hamas have been some that purport to speak for gays, Jews, feminists and progressives. If any of these groups were actually to travel to Gaza, they would be murdered by Hamas. Read more

A Jewish Democratic congressman called me a Nazi collaborator

Tennessee Congressmen Steve Cohen, who has a long history of one-sided condemnation of Israel, recently called me a Nazi collaborator on MSNBC as the show’s host Alex Witt sat silently by. Read more

Time to tell the truth about the Palestinian issue

The front page of the New York Times Sunday Review featured one of the most biased, one-sided, historically inaccurate, ignorant and bigoted articles ever published by that venerable newspaper. Read more

Marching with devil worshipers

Those women and men who marched in the Woman’s March under the leadership of Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory colluded with evil. Read more

U.S. citizen is being held hostage by a rabbinical court in israel

An elderly and sick U.S. citizen has been held hostage for three years by a rabbinical court in Israel…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

ACLU’s opposition to Kavanaugh sounds its death knoll

Now that Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed, it is appropriate to look at the damage caused by the highly partisan confirmation process.  Among the casualties has been an organisation I have long admired…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

New Eichmann film puts the lie to Hannah Arendt’s “Banality of Evil”

One of the most notorious lines — and lies — that grew out of the trial of Adolph Eichmann for his important role in the Holocaust, was what Hannah Arendt called the “Banality of Evil”…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Trump is not an unindicted co-conspirator

During Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) questioned the legitimacy of the judge’s appointment to the High Court.  Blumenthal said in his opening remarks:  “The president of the United States who has nominated you is an unindicted co-conspirator…”  Senator Cory Booker has also characterised Trump as “an unindicted co-conspirator”…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Why did the Clintons share the stage with Farrakhan?

Imagine President Trump being invited to speak at the funeral of a white singer who he admired (say Ted Nugent, if he were to pass) and seeing that David Duke was on stage in a place of honour…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Why does the Media keep encouraging Hamas Violence?

If this were the first time that Hamas deliberately provoked Israel into self-defence actions that resulted in the unintended deaths of Gaza civilians, the media could be excused for playing into the hands of Hamas…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

NBC’s  Demonisation of Bolton and Gatestone

When I was growing up, organizations that expressed any views at all similar to those expressed by Communist groups were called “Communist fronts”. Read more

What Is a “Refugee”? The Jews from Morocco versus the Palestinians from Israel

What Is a “Refugee”? The Jews from Morocco versus the Palestinians from Israel…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Why is there opposition to a Qatar investigation?

In response to my recent op-ed about Qatar in The Hill titled “Why is Qatar being blockaded and isolated,” several critics have deliberately distorted my views…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Do the Jews control the World?

Our secret is out.  The Jews control the world!  We own the media. Politicians do our bidding.  Wall Street is a Jewish shtetle.  Hollywood moguls make secret deals in Yiddish.  Jewish professors propagandise their students to support Israel.  Jewish puppet masters pull the strings and their compliant puppets simply follow…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Don’t diagnose President Trump – respond to him

The 1964 presidential election was the second in which I voted.  Lyndon Johnson who had succeeded John Kennedy, was running against Barry Goldwater…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Debating BDS with Harvard’s Cornel West

Zionism was the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, not a colonial enterprise. Nor is Israel in any way like South Africa, where a minority of whites ruled over a majority of Blacks, who were denied the most fundamental human rights. In Israel, Arabs, Druze and Christians have equal rights and serve in high positions in government, business, the arts and academia…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

The conflict over Jerusalem is ALL Obama’s was fault

The US acted properly in vetoing a misguided Security Council resolution designed to undo President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

Violence should not determine policy…writes Alan Dershowitz

Many who are opposed to President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital point to the call for violence by Hamas and the scattered violence on the West Bank as evidence that Trump was wrong. Read more

Why Trump is right in recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital…writes Alan Dershowitz

President Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a perfect response to President Obama’s benighted decision to change American policy by engineering the United Nations Security Council Resolution declaring Judaism’s holiest places in Jerusalem to be occupied territory and a “flagrant violation under international law.” Read more

Why did Flynn lie and why did Mueller charge him with lying?

The charge to which retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty may tell us a great deal about the Robert Mueller investigation…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

The Daily Californian refuses to publish my response to an antisemitic op-ed 

On November 3, The Daily Californian published an op-ed by Matthew Taylor, explicitly accusing me of having “blood on his [my] hands” and being “culpable for the perpetuation of…[Israeli] atrocities.”…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

 Forward defends antisemitic cartoon

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 antisemitic imagery of the Nazi era…writes  Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

An Anti-Semitic caricature of me generates no criticism from Berkeley hard left

I was recently invited to present the liberal case for Israel at Berkeley…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

President Trump did the right thing by walking away from UNESCO

The State Department announced on Thursday that the United States would be withdrawing from the UN agency UNESCO, citing financial reasons, the need for reform and the body’s “continuing anti-Israel bias”…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Trump’s ‘calm before the storm’ is a message to North Korea and Iran

Reporters continue scratching their heads about what President Trump meant when he spoke of the “calm before the storm” on Thursday as he was hosting a dinner for military commanders and their spouses. It seems clear to me that he was sending a powerful message to North Korea and Iran: change your behavior now, or prepare to face new but unspecified painful consequences…writes Alan Dershowitz. Read more

The Case for Kurdish Independence

Over 90% of Iraq’s Kurdish population have now voted for independence from Iraq. While the referendum is not binding, it reflects the will of a minority group that has a long history of persecution and statelessness…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Plame knew what she was tweeting

Valerie Plame had to know what she was tweeting. Plame retweeted a virulently antisemitic article by a well-known bigot, which she characterised as “thoughtful.” Now she’s trying to make excuses, but they don’t wash…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

Does the President have the right to expect loyalty from his Attorney General?

Recent news reports describe the President chastising his Attorney General Jeff Sessions for disloyalty…writes Alan M. Dershowitz. Read more

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