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Alan Dershowitz, the longtime Harvard Law professor emeritus who still carries the gravitas of a legal elder statesman, used his appearance on Newsmax’s Sunday Report to deliver a blunt warning to the country: antisemitism is rising on both the hard left and the extreme right, and patriots must reject it. His rebuke landed where it counts, telling viewers that figures who flirt with Holocaust denial or spread conspiracies have no place in American politics.
Dershowitz is no partisan firebrand; he has spent decades arguing in the courts and on television, and only recently publicly broke with the Democratic Party because of its toleration of anti-Jewish rhetoric and policy positions he found unacceptable. Americans should listen when a principled centrist who once voted across the Democratic ticket warns that neither party is immune from the poison of Jew-hatred.
He did not spare the left, pointing out — as any honest observer must — that growing hostility toward Israel has sometimes crossed the line into antisemitism disguised as foreign-policy critique. Conservatives are right to call out cancel-culture on campuses and in the media, but we must also be vigilant and vocal when left-wing activists traffic in age-old hatreds.
At the same time, Dershowitz named names on the right and refused to let conservatives hide behind tribal loyalty when our own ranks flirt with bigotry. He called out the embrace and platforming of extremist voices as a repeat of past efforts to inject antisemitism into the GOP, and warned that tolerating it would be a disaster for the party and the country. That straight talk is exactly what the conservative movement needs more of.
This moment calls for clarity from Republican leaders: condemn antisemitism unequivocally, and make it clear that those who echo neo-Nazi tropes or deny the Holocaust have no standing in our political coalition. Dershowitz even praised leaders who stand firmly for the Jewish people and for Israel, urging party bosses to ensure the party’s imprimatur is not given to hate. Conservatives who care about national unity and law and order should embrace that standard without hesitation.
Beyond rhetoric, the response must be practical: enforce hate-crime laws, protect synagogues and Jewish institutions, and stop the left-wing and right-wing double standard that lets some forms of bigotry slide under the guise of identity politics or freewheeling debate. Patriotism means defending every minority from violence and intolerance, and standing with our Jewish neighbors is part of defending the very soul of America.
Alan Dershowitz’s message should wake up every patriotic American who believes in freedom and decency: confront antisemitism wherever it appears, hold politicians to account, and do not let cynical media or extremist demagogues normalize hatred. If conservatives want to rebuild trust with millions of Americans of good conscience, we start by showing that our principles include protecting the Jewish people and the right of Israel to exist without being demonized.
