JPost.com - Alan M. Dershowitz Reporter

Hawking endorses Iran's and China's repression

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:46:29 GMT

The boycotter's actions indicates that he endorses the repression practiced by the Iranian mullahs and the Chinese party bosses.

Stephen Hawking endorses Iranian, Chinese repression

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:15:50 GMT

Prior to the cancelation of his academic talk in Israel, it might have been argued that his visits to Iran and China reflected not support for the regimes but rather a neutral approach to academics.

Jews who boo efforts to make peace

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:22:45 GMT

Jewish extremists who boo everyone who wants to make compromises for peace are every bit as dangerous as Jewish extremists on the hard left.

Jews who boo efforts to make peace

Thu, 02 May 2013 22:16:45 GMT

The right wing Jewish extremists who boo everyone who wants to make compromises for peace, are every bit as dangerous as Jewish extremists on the hard left who also demand a one state solution.

Terrorism tests our commitments to the constitution

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:36:18 GMT

Boston bomber should cooperate with authorities in exchange for his life, thus denying him martyrdom.

As Israelis mourned, Jordanians glorify

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:15:59 GMT

A hero was made out of a Jordanian soldier who murdered 7 Israeli school girls and wounded 6 others during a peace program in 1997.

Carter's legacy should be debated, not celebrated

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:25:36 GMT

Cardozo Law School’s wrongheaded honoring of Jimmy Carter can provide an educational moment to weigh if indeed, he deserves the accolade.

An open letter to President Obama

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:51:10 GMT

Israelis desperately want peace, normalization and a predictable future for their children.

Of course Hamas killed the baby

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:00:50 GMT

UN's recent disclosure that the son of BBC photographer was killed by Hamas rocket and not by Israel should have no moral implications.

Pink anti-Semitism is no different from brown anti-Semitism

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:26:24 GMT

Radical gay activists are claiming that Israel is engaging in ‘pinkwashing’ — i.e. using Israel’s openness to gays as a strategy to conceal violation of Palestinians.

Will a notorious anti-Semite become the pope?

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:49:46 GMT

Rodriguez Maradiaga is an out and out Jew-hater who says that Jews are to blame for sexual scandals of priests.

Did Brooklyn College violate the First Amendment?

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:45:56 GMT

The sword of co-sponsorship may have become a shield to protect the First Amendment rights of students who were prevented from handing out anti-BDS leaflets.

The high cost of defending Israel

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:44:36 GMT

I will continue to fight back and respond every time the dogs of defamation are unleashed against me.

Comment: The death of a liberal Israel lover

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:15:13 GMT

Ed Koch was never content. He lived and died as a real Jew, always pursuing the never-ending quest for justice.

Does Bklyn College pass the 'shoe on the other foot' test?

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 10:37:31 GMT

Endorsing only one side of a controversial issue while refusing to acknowledge the other side is unacceptable.

Brooklyn College joins BDS movement

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:27:06 GMT

Brooklyn College Political Science dept denies equal free speech and academic freedom to pro-Israel students and faculty.

Netanyahu and Abbas must reenter talks

Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:57:51 GMT

Resuming negotiations would send a powerful message to Obama that Israel does indeed know its own best interests.

Hagel may encourage Iran’s nuclear ambitions

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:55:58 GMT

Hagel's nomination will strengthen those within the Iranian leadership who think that Obama is bluffing.

Legal implication of the UN Resolution on Palestine

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 11:32:56 GMT

The actions of the General Assembly have removed the incentive necessary for Palestinians to negotiate with Israel.

Why a cease-fire will not last

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:29:40 GMT

Expect only a "hudna" that will last until Hamas decides it is time to invoke violence once again.

Hamas's tactic: Civilian casualties for all

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:00:28 GMT

The current conflict is a replay of what happened 4 years ago, which ultimately resulted in the benighted Goldstone Report.

Analysis: Jewish backing for Obama good for Israel

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:24:50 GMT

Let us all now join together in helping Obama in his efforts to assure Israel’s security.

Timing is everything

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:23:39 GMT

After the American and Israeli elections, Mideast peace negotiations should resume.

The case for President Obama’s reelection

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:33:47 GMT

The Obama administration has strongly supported Israel’s security by helping to construct the Iron Dome, by backing Israel’s responses to rocket attacks from Gaza and by coordinating closely with its military.

Honoring an anti-Semite?

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:33:30 GMT

A park in NJ is being named after Grabowski, a man who called Jews “vermin,” “animals” and “Christ killers.”

Are radical imams redefining freedom of speech?

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 14:19:04 GMT

Those who employ violence should never be allowed to initiate a debate about the limits of free speech.

J’Acuse: Shame on Germany for circumcision ban

Sat, 08 Sep 2012 21:54:35 GMT

Every person should condemn Germany for its anti-Semitic efforts to ban circumcision.

President Obama can stop Iran

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:48:12 GMT

Sanctions have failed; Obama must commit to using military force to prevent Iran if necessary.

J Street makes an attack on Iran more likely

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:45:36 GMT

If drums and sabers can prevent the need for bombs and rockets, let them beat and rattle on!

J Street makes an attack on Iran more likely

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:54:01 GMT

J Street should get out of the business of telling Israel how to balance existential risks.

Thoughts of an Israel-supporting Liberal Democrat

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:07:44 GMT

I will vote for the presidential candidate who I believe is best for America and for the world, and I will consider their policies toward Israel.

How US lib-dems should view presidential candidates

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:21:09 GMT

A response to Joel Pollak for Liberal Democrat voters who support Israel.

No ‘buyer’s remorse’ for voting for Obama

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:31:42 GMT

When I decide who to vote for as president, I ask myself who will be best for America and for the world.

Op-ed: NJDC doesn’t speak for me on Adelson!

Mon, 09 Jul 2012 15:19:04 GMT

Alan Dershowitz defends Sheldon Adelson following Nat'l Jewish Democratic Council's call to stop accepting his donations.

A settlement freeze can advance peace

Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:41:01 GMT

This is a necessary compromise that would mean no more excuses for resolving the conflict.

Alice Walker’s bigotry

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:41:02 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, has resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew-speaking readers of her writings.

Alice Walker’s bigotry

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:23:52 GMT

Pulitzer Prize winning author has refused to have 'The Color Purple' translated into Hebrew.

J Street undercuts Obama’s policy on Iran

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:35:52 GMT

US President Barack Obama recently invited me to the Oval Office for a discussion about Iran.

Suppressing ugly truth for beautiful art

Tue, 01 May 2012 18:39:13 GMT

The Met's exhibit on Gertrude Stein suppresses truth about her collaboration with Nazism.

Günter Grass shouldn’t be barred from Israel

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:36:27 GMT

The controversial writer should be welcomed in Israel and shown the real facts on the ground.

Case against the Left and Right one state solution

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:23:03 GMT

One state solution will end Israel’s status as a democratic nation-state of the Jewish people.

Why deterrence won’t work against Iran

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:53:48 GMT

A policy of containment and deterrence is a call for inaction.

Obama turns a corner on Iran

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:56:21 GMT

Obama sent a clear message to the Iranians that his no-nuclear policy is not a bluff.

Harvard conference seeks the end of Israel

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:28:31 GMT

Conference will rail against a Jewish State but won’t refute Islam as the official religion.

Media Matters hurts Obama

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:18:47 GMT

American Jews who support current Israeli policies are accused of dual loyalty.

NY seminary plays bait, switch on anti-Semitism

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:42:01 GMT

Friends Seminary of New York backs out of agreement to invite Alan Dershowitz to talk about the evils of anti-Semitism.

Who are America’s reliable allies?

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:06:36 GMT

The world is turning its back on the US leaving Israel as its only reliable ally.

Iran has declared war against Israel

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:20:20 GMT

For deterrence to succeed, the threat of military action must be credible to the Iranians.

A victory over bigotry at Friends

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:07:40 GMT

Atzmon belongs in the company of other bigots, not in American schools.

A challenge to the Friends Seminary

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:32:39 GMT

Students, read this essay about how the school is legitimating anti-Semitism.

Friends Seminary legitimates anti-Semitism

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:51:20 GMT

The Friends Seminary has invited a self-proclaimed Jew hater to their hallowed halls.

Why anti-Semitism is moving toward the mainstream

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:19:31 GMT

Brian Leiter and Ron Paul are guilty of helping to legitimize bigotry. Shame on them!

Why are Mearsheimer and Falk endorsing anti-Semitism?

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:36:53 GMT

The recent endorsements by John Mearsheimer and Richard Falk of an overtly anti-Semitic book written by a notorious Jew-hater illustrate a dangerous trend.

Should Israel exchange terrorists for a kidnapped soldier?

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:22:01 GMT

The preference for life over death signals a democracy’s commitment to value the life of every single one of its citizens, even if it means taking extraordinary risks.

Conviction of the 'Irvine Ten' is constitutionally sound

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:19:53 GMT

Ten students who set out to prevent Michael Oren from speaking to students at the University of California have been convicted - yet, because the students in this case were Muslims, many on the hard left are making heroes of these ten censors.

How the Palestinian leadership is ignoring history

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:11:25 GMT

A price must be paid for violence and if the Palestinians get more than, or even as much as, they rejected in 2000 and 2001, then further intifadas with mass casualties will be encouraged.

The UN to push an Apartheid, Judenrein, Islamic Palestine

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:28:31 GMT

The new Palestinian state would prohibit any Jews from being citizens, from owning land or from even living in the Muslim state of Palestine.

UN vote on Palestine will set back peace

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:03:02 GMT

The job of the UN is to promote peace, not to retard it. So instead of discouraging negotiations by promising recognition, the UN should be demanding that the Palestinian leadership and the Israeli government begin negotiations immediately.

Should Israel welcome Glenn Beck’s support?

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:51:13 GMT

Beck’s support provides a beacon of hope while Israel's old friends and allies are abandoning it in droves. One need not accept all of his positions on Israel to agree with him that backing Israel is one of the great moral issues of the 21st Century.

Pollard’s sentence should be commuted to time served

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:24:22 GMT

Pollard’s continued imprisonment, in violation of law, equality, justice and compassion, is a stain on America which can only be removed if Obama commutes Pollard’s sentence to time served.

Is terror in Israel more justified than terror in Norway?

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:10:42 GMT

No person in their right mind would attempt to justify the terrorist attacks against Norway. Yet there are many Norwegians who not only justify terrorist attacks against Israel, but legitimate them and sometimes even finance them

Ships and planes of fools pick wrong target

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:15:05 GMT

When a proper standard is universally applied, Israel’s record on human rights shines in comparison with the records of nations and groups supported by the fools and hypocrites on these boats and planes.

Casey Anthony criminal trial and justice for the victim

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:26:12 GMT

A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt. A civil trial, on the other hand, seeks justice for the victim.

An Iran with nuclear weapons

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:30:00 GMT

Retiring Secretary of Defense Robert Gates leaves a dubious legacy behind him: Persuading the United States to change its policy from an absolute unwillingness to accept a nuclear armed Iran, to a policy of “containing” an inevitable nuclear armed Iran.

Yale to shut down interdisciplinary study of anti-Semitism

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:00:34 GMT

There has rarely been a more important time for the interdisciplinary study of the spreading phenomenon of anti-Semitism in the world today yet instead Yale has taken a cowardly step away from the controversy.

Obama has right goals but wrong strategy for peace

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:32:13 GMT

Obama's recent speech on the Israel-Palestine conflict helped cement the status quo by hardening the positions of both sides and creating distrust of him by Israelis and Palestinians.

Obama explains – and makes it worse

Wed, 25 May 2011 23:12:25 GMT

President Obama's statement in a UK press conference reveals the underlying flaw in Obama’s thinking about the conflict. Giving the Palestinians more than they asked for has made it impossible for the Palestinians to compromise.

Civil libertarians and academics who support censors

Mon, 23 May 2011 00:27:58 GMT

While dissenting students have the right to express disapproval of a speaker’s views, they have no right to conspire to shut down a speaker, which is what the Muslim Student Union students did to Israel’s Ambassador to the US, Michael Oren.

President Obama’s mistake

Fri, 20 May 2011 03:00:15 GMT

The US President was wrong to insist that Israel give up its card of occupying most of the West Bank without demanding that the Palestinians give up theirs, the so called right of return.

Bin Laden’s Defender: Noam Chomsky

Thu, 12 May 2011 23:04:19 GMT

Chomsky's latest rant claims that bin Laden was not complicit in the attacks of 9/11 and that Bush's sins were worse than those of the al-Qaida ringleader.

Bin Laden assassination vindicates targeted killings

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:23:03 GMT

The targeted killing of Osama is being applauded all over the world, and rightly so. But what happened to the voices of opposition, primarily from European states, who in the past have denigrated Israel for the far more regulated targeted killings of Hamas terrorists?

How WikiLeaks undercuts The Goldstone Report

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 16:25:21 GMT

WikiLeaks reveals that a far greater proportion of civilian deaths were caused by British, German and US military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan than those caused by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead. These latest revelations signal that it’s high time a single standard be applied to all democracies.

An American academic supports targeting Israeli civilians

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:48:45 GMT

Norman Finkelstein didn't wield the knife that slit the throat of the Fogel baby or fire the mortar that seriously injured a 16 year old and barely missed killing 30 other students, but he might as well have.

South African charge of Israeli apartheid rings hollow

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:03:02 GMT

South Africa joins Norway as among the nations most intolerant of pro Israel views, but at least the former has a vibrant Jewish community that is willing to fight back against those who would censor pro Israel views.

Norway’s 'boycott' of pro-Israel speakers

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:25:54 GMT

It it isn't only kosher meat that is absent from the country that was the first to prohibit its production. Dialogue in Norway these days is entirely one-sided, with Hamas and its supporters invited to take part while supporters of Israel are boycotted.

Rants against the Jews

Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:15:17 GMT

John Galliano’s anti-Semitic slurs follow a succession of similar rants made by celebrities – often spouted in moments of megalomania or dipsomania.

Iran’s shipment justifies Israeli attack on nuclear reactor

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:07:00 GMT

The recently seized shipment of weapons to Hamas, designed to kill Israeli civilians, is one of Iran’s many acts of war that legally justify a military response from Israel. The most viable option is a preventive military strike similar to the one Israel conducted against Iraq’s nuclear reactor in 1981.

WikiLeaks: Harmful or helpful?

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:45:21 GMT

The debate about whether WikiLeaks are good or bad for democracies is a valid one. But when a former president declares that Assange has caused “great harm” to the country, he’s doing little more than throwing down a political gauntlet.

Why Obama was right to veto the UNSC resolution

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:18:59 GMT

In demanding that Israel “cease all settlement activities,” and demanding nothing from the Palestinians, the resolution ultimately rejects US policy that negotiations take place without preconditions.

A bold move by three leaders

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:06:53 GMT

The crisis in Egypt should motivate Obama, Netanyahu and Abbas to tackle 3 fronts: kick start the Israel-Palestine peace process; strengthen support for the peace treaty with Egypt; and support the PA against Hamas.

Rabbis for 'justice,' but only against the Right

Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:05:08 GMT

A 'Wall Street Journal' ad signed by 400 rabbis criticizes the misuse of Holocaust imagery but ignores the problem of Jewish demonizers. A blanket moratorium is needed to prevent Jews and non-Jews on the Right and the Left from using these images.

The Left, the Right and the appropriation of language

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:29:22 GMT

The self-proclaimed “pro-Israel” NGO can go after Palin for saying blood libel. But when a fellow leftist compares the IDF to the Gestapo, not only is it not ignored, it’s lauded.

The Israeli judiciary: A model of independence

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:41:04 GMT

The International Criminal Court is not allowed to investigate countries with a functioning judicial system. Not surprisingly, an exception is made in the case of Israel.

The Finkler Question: Jews' irrational hatred of Israel

Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:30:34 GMT

Why do so many Jews regard Israel as a pariah state? The extraordinary characters in Howard Jacobson's novel shed light on the psychology behind the country's Jewish detractors.

Bishop Tutu's sordid history of Jew-hatred

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:25:05 GMT

Its time to expose the sins of the Nobel prize winning clergyman that has called for boycotts against Jews, whom he calls a "peculiar people."

When Hamas admits Israel is right

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:13:45 GMT

Goldstone, the ICC and "human rights" groups are in danger of condemning Israel on false allegations.

How to win friends and influence politicians

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:40:03 GMT

The Arab lobby, which has no popular support and makes little effort to woo elected officials, profoundly impacts decision-making in the US democracy.