Mr. Dershowitz is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. He has written more than 50 books, more than 1,000 articles, and has successfully litigated hundreds of cases, half of them pro bono. He is the author, most recently, of the book ‘The Preventive State,’ and earlier books include ‘War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism’ and ‘Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law.’
The deepest concern for this liberal Jew who grew up at Brooklyn is that antisemitism and anti-Israel bigotry are no longer disqualifying factors in a New York election.
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Palestinianism is not a progressive cause.
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Enemies of the Jewish state have to be convinced that the Israeli blood shed on October 7 is not cheap.
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The Jewish religious prohibition on eating pork simply does not apply to any organ transplants.
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Let institutions be given discretion in defining meritocracy, but not be allowed to dissemble about what they are doing.
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The reaction of the left to October 7, and the positive support given by many to Hamas’s barbarism, moves many Jews out of their traditional left-wing base.
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Hundreds of thousands of students and others have signed petitions claiming that Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest violates his rights of free speech.
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Wars are no longer merely battles of physical strength. They are conflicts in which intelligence, technology, and science prevail.
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Hezbollah could turn its focus to soft targets such as synagogues, schools, and other civilian institutions.
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Potential assassins could believe that they will be honored for killing Trump.
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Though most Democratic voters and elected officials are centrist, the party’s leaders have become too beholden to its woke, progressive, and radical wing.
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And, by the same logic, a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear arms program would be justified.
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