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topicnews · September 7, 2024

Alan Dershowitz ends his support for the Democratic Party because of its support for Hamas

Alan Dershowitz ends his support for the Democratic Party because of its support for Hamas

Alan Dershowitz announced in an interview with Zev Brenner on Talkline in late August that he would end his support for the Democratic Party in response to the support for Hamas that he had seen before the Democratic National Convention.

Dershowitz is a prominent American lawyer and law professor known for his work on American constitutional and criminal law.

When Brenner asked him about his feelings about the events at the convention, Dershowitz said, “I was so unhappy. It was the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention I have ever experienced…”

“Let me tell you why this was the worst Congress in history. [in] “It was a conversation between the most anti-Semites in American history,” Dershowitz told Brenner. “There were more anti-Semites and anti-Zionists there – starting with AOC (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez), a pathetic anti-Zionist fanatic. Then of course you had Liz Warren, one of the worst anti-Semites in the Senate. Then you had Bernie Sanders, one of the worst anti-Semites in the Senate. And to top it off, you had one of the worst anti-Semites in modern American history… Last night at the convention was Reverend Sharpton… the guy who provoked a pogrom in Crown Heights.”

He added that while the Democrats had instructed the “anti-Jewish” speakers not to speak about Israel, they had nevertheless given them a platform to “legitimately[ing]” them.

Dershowitz also alleged that Governor Josh Shapiro’s career in the party had stalled because of his Jewish identity.

PENNSYLVANIA’S GOVERNOR Josh Shapiro accompanied US Vice President Kamala Harris on her visit to Philadelphia last month before President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy for re-election. (Source: KEVIN MOHATT/REUTERS)

“I understand that if his name [were] John Sheppard, not Josh Shapiro, would have been the Democratic nominee,” Dershowitz said, later asserting: “I don’t think Kamala Harris is anti-Semitic. I don’t think she didn’t pick Shapiro just because he’s Jewish. [or] just because she doesn’t like Jews… I think she was under a lot of pressure. We know she was under a lot of pressure from the extreme left of the Democratic Party, and she knew that if she had nominated Josh Shapiro there would have been demonstrations…”

The lawyer later said he was not Shapiro’s biggest supporter, particularly because of his negative comments about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Biden’s “chutzpah”

While describing US President Joe Biden as a friend with whom he shared a long history, Dershowitz also criticized the president’s “chutzpah” when he claimed that pro-Palestinian protesters abroad who “tore down fences,” “called for Hamas” and “burned American flags” “might have good points.”

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“There were no fine people standing outside the convention center shouting, ‘Hamas will win,’ ‘We are all Hamas,’ ‘Everything was fine on October 7th,'” Dershowitz said, drawing comparisons to what he said was a misrepresentation of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that there were good people on both sides of the neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville.

“I’m no longer a Democrat. I’m an independent,” Dershowitz said, adding that he would decide later who he would vote for based on voters’ reaction to a possible attack by Iran. He said he would not announce his vote “until maybe November 1” to encourage the administration to take a more pro-Israel stance.



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