Mr. Dershowitz is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. He has written 52…
The real law is found not in the compilation of published rules alone; it is largely a function of prosecutorial discretion, as demonstrated by the selective prosecutions of Trump and the president’s son.
It should not be a term of opprobrium to reasonable people who understand its true meaning.
What Elie Wiesel once said about the Holocaust has proved prescient: ‘Believe the threats of your enemies more than the promises of your friends.’
The hatred of Israel is so passionate, so deep and so one-sided that it is clear that something more is at stake here than the merits.
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.
As a matter of law, Israel is entitled to respond to this act of war by overwhelming, even disproportionate, force against Iranian military targets.
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