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America is on trial as much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

The first great terrorist trial of the 20th century will take place in the shadow of the World Trade Center. The Obama administration has announced that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, will be subjected to an ordinary ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,  Barack Obama,  Wall Street Journal,  Daniel Pearl,  George W. Bush

Alan Dershowitz: Goldstone Criticizes UN Council on Human Rights

Richard Goldstone, the primary author of the infamous Goldstone Report, is now trying to distance himself from the way in which the report is being used to single out Israel for condemnation. Most recently he criticized the United Nations Council on ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Huffington Post,  22 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Richard Goldstone,  Alan Dershowitz,  United Nations,  Barack Obama

Alan Dershowitz: The Hyposcrisy of "Universal Jurisdiction"

From my knowledge of the IDF and from the extent to which I have been following the current operation, I don't think there has ever been a time in the history of warfare when any army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties and deaths of ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Huffington Post,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Alan Dershowitz,  Hamas,  Ehud Barak,  Moshe Ya'alon,  Hezbollah

The Practice

The popular parlor game of ranking our presidents hasn’t caught on for Supreme Court justices, perhaps because there are too many of them (Sonia Sotomayor is the 111th justice) or because Americans have so little knowledge of what they actually do. But ...

From ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, The New York Times,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Supreme Court of the United States,  Louis Brandeis,  Sonia Sotomayor,  Abraham Lincoln,  John Adams

Alan Dershowitz: Ad Hominem Attack on Israel

"I think Israel has very little choice other than to carry on with its military operations until it reaches the conclusion it needs which is to stop Hamas from firing rockets at its people in its territory. ...there was no reliance on Col. Kemp ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Huffington Post,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Alan Dershowitz,  Richard Goldstone,  United Nations,  Hezbollah

Alan Dershowitz: UN Investigation of Israel Discredits Itself and Undercuts Human Rights

The UN Human Rights Council is a scandal. [It has] a long history of singling out Israel for condemnation and of ignoring real human rights abusers by the world's worst offenders, several of which dominate the Human Rights Council and it predecessor. ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Huffington Post,  18 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Hamas,  Alan Dershowitz,  United Nations,  Richard Goldstone,  Noam Chomsky

Raymond Clark III Arrested, But Many Questions Remain

With the arrest of Raymond Clark on charges of murdering Annie Le, the New Haven police now seem to be acknowledging that he was more than a mere "person of interest" when they handcuffed him and took him into custody two days earlier. He was surely a ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Huffington Post,  18 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Annie M. Le

A "Person of Interest" Can't Be Arrested

The tragic murder of Yale medical student, Annie Le, has now resulted in the brief detention of a so-called "person of interest," Raymond Clark, III. The New Haven police went out of their way to label Clark a "person of interest" rather than a ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Huffington Post,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Annie M. Le,  Dick Cheney,  Central Intelligence Agency,  American Civil Liberties Union,  Federal Bureau of Investigation

Yale's Cartoon Cowardice

Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Shakil Adil / AP Photo When Yale's press capitulated to threats and refused to publish Muhammad cartoons in a forthcoming book, it set a frightening precedent ...

From ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, The Daily Beast,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Martin Kramer

Baseball errs with lax penalty on pitchers who take aim at hitters

THE time has come to look hard at the policy of Major League Baseball with regard to pitchers who deliberately throw at the head of batters and the managers who order them to do so. As the 89th anniversary of the death of Ray Chapman at the hands of a ...

From ALAN DERSHOWITZ, Boston Globe,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Major League Baseball,  Ray Chapman,  Tony Conigliaro,  David Wright,  New York Mets

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