Alan Dershowitz

Report Shows More Than One Side to Zimmerman Storyline

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Jeralyn Merritt, George Zimmerman, Angela Corey, Special Prosecutor, Alan Dershowitz, Trayvon Martin, Video, Crime News

Those who demanded a criminal prosecution see themselves as righteous defenders of a victim, but they fail to realize Zimmerman is also a victim, because he's been denied the presumption of innocence to which he's entitled.

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The Unchecked Charging Power of the Prosecutor

Radley Balko | Posted 04.14.2012

Read More: George Zimmerman, Prosecutorial Discretion, Bennett Gershman, Trayvon Martin, Alan Dershowitz, Criminal Justice, Angela Corey, Prosecutors, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Crime News

The power prosecutors have to charge people with crimes is often overlooked.

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Old Jews Telling Jokes

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Jokes, Comedians, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Stand-Up Comedy, Alan Dershowitz, Jewish Guilt, Jewish Humor, Comedy, Fifty News

Anyone who is cleaning up wrapping paper, taking down decorations and cleaning up the mess left from the holiday rush will appreciate this midday, Int...

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Can Larry David Bring Peace To The Middle East?

Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Middle East, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, Larry David, Alan Dershowitz, Palestinian Chicken, Israel, Larry David Curb Your Enthusiasm, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Middle East Peace, Video, Entertainment News

Larry David isn't generally known as a peace maker, but an episode of his show, "Curb Your Enthusiasm," could just help solve one of the most intracta...

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The Jewish Solution Problem

Dovid Efune | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Alan Dershowitz, Islamist Fascism, Jewish Problem, Jewish Enemies, Jewish Mindset, Judeophobia, Judaism, Jewish Victimhood, Unmasked Judeophobia Documentary, Holocaust Mentality, Religion News

We need to be proactive, aggressive and constantly on the attack, pushing forward the Jewish narrative and positions, holding haters and their enablers accountable in a relentless fashion.

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Famed Lawyer's In-Law Dies In Crash

AP | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Lawyers, Accident, Hit and Run, Alan Dershowitz, Marilyn Dershowitz, Marilyn Dershowitz Rip, US Postal Service, New York News

NEW YORK — A U.S. Postal Service truck driver accidentally struck and killed a retired state Supreme Court special referee who was the sister-in...

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Freedom of the Press vs. State Secrets

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.15.2011

Does the press have the right to disclose some secrets? I believe that too many documents are designated "top-secret" when they really should be designated "embarrassing."

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A Better Medium: Baha'i And The Future of Journalism

Paula Gordon | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Democratic Dialog, Cornel West, Paula Gordon, Future of Journalism, Bahá?í, Baha'i Faith, Alan Dershowitz, Baha'i Justice, Jewish Social Justice, Journalism, Religion News

It's encouraging to know that at least one of the world's faith traditions puts justice where it belongs: front and center.

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Dershowitz Versus Horton on Lawfare: Real Threat or Illusion?

Heather Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Goldstone Report, Operation Cast Lead, Alan Dershowitz, International Human Rights Law, Lawfare, Scott Horton, Hamas, Israel, Human Shields, Palestinians, Attorneys, Debate, Charles J. Dunlap Jr., Princeton Club, CLE Credit, The LawFare Project, New York News

Rhetorical sparks flew in Manhattan yesterday as Alan Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, and Scott Horton, contribu...

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So, You Think You Earn an Honest Living?

Crystal Syben Haidl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Capitalism, Social Capitalism, Honesty, Alan Dershowitz, Economic Crisis, Joe Klein, Jobs, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Democracy, George Bernard Shaw, Capitalism, Honest America, Tea Party Movement, Infrastructure, Labor, Labor Day, Food Inc., Work, Family Values, Values, Honest Living, Kalamazoo, Economic Terrorism, Nostra Culpa, Honest Work, Will Rogers, Honest Economy, Accountability, Civilianality, Michael Moore Sicko, Politics News

While Tea Partiers, pundits, lobbyists and mid-term candidates are out-shouting mantras on how to fix the system, the one thing almost everyone agrees...

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For Doctors Without Borders, the Welfare of Patients Always Comes First

Matthew Spitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doctors Without Borders, Israel, Haaretz, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Alan Dershowitz, World News

Fundamental to our work are the principles of neutrality and impartiality. Suggestions that we would put the welfare of patients at risk due to political or other biases are simply unfounded.

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Rabbi Michael Lerner: Polemics and Distortions Are Anti-Peace

Suzette Standring | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jews, Israelis, Tikkun, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Vandalism, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Goldstone, Jewish People, Middle East, Israel, Beyt Tikkun, Obama, Hamas, Palestinians, World News

Rabbi Lerner's San Francisco home was defaced by political posters permanently glued on by whom he suspects to be right wing Zionists critical of him and Richard Goldstone.

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It Is Goldstone Who Is Politicizing Grandson's Bar Mitzvah

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldstone Report, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Goldstone, Blood Libel, Politics News

Richard Goldstone should not use his grandson's bar mitzvah to selectively silence rabbis who disagree with his report.

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My Direct Challenge to J Street

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: J Street, Alan Dershowitz, Politics News

It is typical of J Street to blame Israel and its supporters for everything, without putting any of the responsibility on those who are truly to blame.

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A Final Letter to Alan Dershowitz (for Now)

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J Street, National Security, Jewish, Alan Dershowitz, Palestinians, Israel, Barack Obama, World News

The days when our community could act as if disagreements don't exist and could muscle those with competing views off the stage are long over.

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A Direct Answer to Alan Dershowitz and a Challenge Back

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Islamic Republic of Iran, J Street, National Security, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Alan Dershowitz, Palestinians, Iran, Israel, Barack Obama, World News

Alan, first, I am pleased to be asked what my opinion is rather than to be told. You ask whether I claim a direct relationship between Israel's acti...

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Alan Dershowitz Is Wrong

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General David Petreaus, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J-Street, Israel Lobby, Israeli Occupation, President Obama, Alan Dershowitz, Palestinians, J Street, Israel, Arab-Israeli Conflict, World News

Alan, what did you mean when you said J Street had "gone over to the dark side"? That those who don't think ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a U.S. national security interest are the forces of light?

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Anti-Israeli Hysteria and Helen Thomas

Jawal Nga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ari Fleischer, Israel, Seymour Hersh, Helen Thomas, Alan Dershowitz, Politics News

Since when has Ari Fleisher's opinion on anything other than what President Bush caught fishing mattered to the global consensus?

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Dershowitz Peddling More Middle East Myths

Matthew Duss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Iran Nuclear, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

The prospect of a nuclear weapons-capable Iran is troubling enough without bringing in hysterical claims about it being a "suicide nation."

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Stanford, Texas Billionaire, Attempts To Get Out Of Jail A Third Time

AP | JUAN A. LOZANO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Billionaires, Federal Prosecutors, David Hittner, Robert Bennett, Alan Dershowitz, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Allen Stanford, Texas Jail, White Collar Crime, Jail, Business News

HOUSTON — Texas financier R. Allen Stanford's attorneys said Tuesday that jail has reduced their client to a "wreck of a man" who is severely de...

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Israel's Supporters in the Diaspora Need Not Speak in One Voice

Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: European Jews, Jcall, J Street, Middle East Politics, Alan Dershowitz, Israel, American Jews, World News, World News

Does being pro-Israel mean that as a diaspora Jew you are required to support the policies of Israeli governments, even if they contradict your values?

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Alan Dershowitz and the Politics of Desperation

Rabbi Brant Rosen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel, Goldstone Report, Richard Goldstone, Alan Dershowitz, Blood Libel, Politics News

When a Jew accuses rabbis of blood libel -- when a world-famous lawyer compares an internationally respected jurist to the Nazis' "Angel of Death" -- it smells very strongly of one thing: desperation.

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Pro-Peace IS Pro-Israel

Sam Asher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J Street, Palestine, Israel, Alan Dershowitz, World News

Dershowitz notes that many terrorist organizations hate Israel simply for its Jewish character. He is right, but the reality of the occupation is that it provides these terrorists a tool for recruitment and radicalization.

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If Israel Killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, Did it Have the Right To?

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh Killing, Iran, Israel, Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh, Alan Dershowitz, World News

It does not violate international law to kill an enemy combatant, regardless of where he is found, whether he is awake or asleep and whether or not he is engaged in active combat at the moment of his demise.

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Fear of Peace Will Be the Death of Israel

Bradley Burston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Commentary, Gaza War, Gaza, Alan Dershowitz, Richard Goldstone, Bradley Burston, Israel, Peace, World News

Israel's international standing has plummeted to an unprecedented low -- and the number of Palestinians killed has concurrently soared -- specifically because of Israel's having done much too much for peace.

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