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Alan Dershowitz



Apr 9, 2026
Dershowitz: If Iran Closes Hormuz to Some Ships, U.S. Should to All
It would be lawful for the United States to respond to Iran's illegality by closing the straits to all and conditioning its reopening on Iran's agreement not to pick and choose who can use this waterway. A partial blockade of Hormuz can be responded to by a total blockade.


Dec 4, 2025
Dershowitz: I'm Not Supporting Gay, Transgender Rights Groups Opposing Israel
Jewish lawyers were at the forefront of legal strategies which ended segregation and that held rogue police officers accountable for unlawful shootings of Black citizens. Yet the organization Black Lives Matter circulated material praising the Hamas murderers of Oct. 7, 2023.


Oct 3, 2025
Dershowitz: UN Walkout on Netanyahu Shows Its Uselessness
For me, watching these bigoted delegates representing hypocritical nations globally, walk out only on the world's only nation-state of the Jewish people, is the straw changing my view about whether the U.S. should continue its membership.


Oct 1, 2025
Faith Becoming a Crime, Paves Road to Selective Prosecution
Imagine you are a member of the Amish community, whose way of life is governed by communal rules. This monastic way of life can be characterized as coercion. Members who do not conform face shunning, which can be used as evidence of psychological harm.


Jun 18, 2025
Israel's Preemptive Attack on Iran Justified
Benjamin Netanyahu has been faulted, largely by left-wing Democrats and radicals, on the grounds that he acted too quickly. A satisfactory deal that would have absolutely assured that Iran would never obtain nuclear weapons was never likely.


Feb 6, 2024
Dershowitz: To Stop My Pro-Israel Speech, I'm Falsely Accused Again
When I was invited to speak about Israel to students at the University of Miami, a group calling themselves "Canes for Palestine" circulated a poster calling me "a known pedophile."


Dec 27, 2023
Dershowitz: Iran Declared War on the United States
Iran has now engaged in a deliberate act of war - casus belli - on numerous occasions against the United States. Most recently it was responsible for critically injuring an American soldier.


Nov 21, 2023
Dershowitz: Palestinians Share Hamas Guilt
Hamas is responsible, morally, legally, and politically for the civilian deaths that were the predictable and indeed intended result of the Oct. 7 attack. These civilian deaths were intended to shift the focus away from the Hamas barbarities.

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