Alan Dershowitz news stories on Newser

Sorry, but Casey Anthony Verdict Was Totally Right

Evann Gastaldo — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:51:43 CDT

Alan M. Dershowitz and Marcia Clark were on opposite sides of the OJ Simpson trial, and they're on opposite sides now : In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Dershowitz firmly states that "the system worked" when Casey Anthony was found not guilty. That's because, much as we all might want it...

Don't 'Blackmail' Israel Into Peace Talks Over Iran: Dershowitz

Neal Colgrass — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:01:33 CDT

Clip Iran's nuclear claws first, then press for peace between Israel and Palestine—not the other way around, Alan Dershowitz argues in the New York Post . Reacting to a recent report, Dershowitz says Rahm Emanuel has it backward in putting Israeli-Palestinian talks before negotiations that could denuclearize Iran. "The threat...

Powder Mailed to Journal , Dershowitz Is Harmless

John Johnson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:25:15 CST

White powder mailed to executives of the Wall Street Journal and to Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz is harmless, authorities say. Authorities have no suspects or motive, but the Journal notes that Dershowitz wrote an essay for the paper earlier this month defending Israel's assault on Gaza. The Journal got a...

She Shouldn't Stand by Him

Jonas Oransky — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:41:00 CDT

Eliot Spitzer is going up in flames, but Americans are wondering why his wife has to go with him: The Los Angeles Times talks to angry people on the street, including one divorcee who insists, “She should’ve said, ‘This is your fight. ... You stand there and get yourself out of...

Obama Finds Advice Can Carry a Price

Jonas Oransky — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:43:31 CDT

Barack Obama may get foreign policy credit for traveling with Zbigniew Brzezinski, but having the Carter-era hand to hold won’t help with Israel boosters. The former national security adviser’s in the doghouse after defending the authors of an article that claimed the “Israel Lobby” has outsize influence in the US,...

Prosecutor Pushes for Quick Action on Libby

M. Morris — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:28:34 CDT

The prosecutor in the Scooter Libby case wants the judge to send the vice president's ex-chief of staff to prison sooner rather than later. Arguing that the chance of an appeals court overturning the conviction is "at best, remote," Patrick Fitzgerald filed documents today calling for Libby's 30-month sentence to...

Holocaust Critic Loses Tenure Bid

Colleen Barry — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:00:00 CDT

Polarizing poli-sci scholar Norman Finkelstein has been refused tenure at DePaul University in Chicago. The school's president said that Finkelstein, a virulent critic of Israel who's been accused of anti-Semitism for his remarks on the Holocaust, stirred too much controversy and ill will for the nation's largest Catholic University.