Alan Dershowitz
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first heard May 2025
last heard 16 Aug
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These folks from DEI and from intersectionality know no principles, no morality, and they will come after you after they come after us.
Well, there's no question that globalizing the Intifada means kill Jews all around the world. And we know that people understand it that way. I think it's intended that way. But even if it weren't intended that way, that's the way it's understood. And we saw this guy who killed these two people was essentially mimicking those statements.
Now, the vast majority of people who participate in these demonstrations would never ever kill. But the majority of people who do kill, who do plant bombs, do shoot, are influenced by these college demonstrations, which have become legitimated. Look, both Vice President Kamala Harris and her vice presidential nominee, both legitimated the protests on campus.
And these protests included From the River to the Sea, There'll Be No Jews, you know, Judenrein, From the River to the Sea, and Globalize the Intifada. Those are incitements to violence. Now, those incitements are protected free speech because they're not directed at a particular person. That doesn't mean Harvard has to tolerate them. You know, the one thing, the one reason why I think it is,
anti-Semitism. And the definition of anti-Semitism is very simple, applying a double standard to things Jewish, including the Jewish state. And it is a double standard. What has been tolerated against Jews would never be tolerated against blacks or gays. Can you imagine
somebody who had a reputation for harassing blacks or gays on campus, getting elected class marshal, or being given a $65,000 scholarship. It would never happen. It's the double standard. It's what is permissible to be said against Zionists, Christians, Jews. The West can't be said against people who are favored and privileged. And let me use that word very clearly.
There's no group on campus that's more privileged today than African Americans. Gays are privileged on campus. They may not be privileged off campus, but we're talking about on campus. These are the most privileged groups. These are the groups that get all the advantages, and yet we have DEI and we have intersectionality.
And we have all these fake academic programs that are being taught at schools at Harvard, schools at Harvard. And I can tell you, having been there 60 years, today there is no room, no room on the campus for pro-Israel, pro-American, pro-Western statements. I have been retired from Harvard now almost 12 years. I have never been invited back to speak about Israel.
The one time a student group invited me. They had to take my speech off campus for fear that I would be physically harmed if I made the case for a two-state solution for Israel. And let's remember one more thing. Not a single one of these demonstrations, not a single one has ever called for a two-state solution. They do not want Israel to exist.
In fact, they prefer a no-state solution to a two-state solution. Obviously, their preference is for a one-state solution. So none of these demonstrations are pro-Palestinian. They are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Western, anti-Christian, and they are embedded within the school. And thank God that Donald Trump is doing something about it. I agree with your prior guest.
I think that sometimes he goes too far. For example, he shouldn't be defunding cancer research. He shouldn't be keeping students out by denying them visas if they're good students and if they support values that we support. But remember, when it comes to coming into the United States.
No one has a constitutional right to come into the United States and then preach against the values that make our country- Wait, but let me just say this.
Well, again, I think it's a good idea to reallocate some of the funds to trade schools. Those are very important institutions in America, and they need the money, perhaps more than Harvard with a $53 billion endowment. But again, I think it could be overgeneralized when you focus on all the visas. Look, Harvard has too many foreign students. When I started teaching at Harvard, What, 3%, 5%?
Now it was up to almost 30%. Yeah, almost a third. Every foreign student who gets a place at Harvard means an American student doesn't get a place. I think Harvard has cynically raised the number of foreign students for financial reasons, but it has produced ideological results.
I think a very high percentage of the anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism is focused on some, not all, obviously, of these foreign students. So I think vetting foreign students is a good idea. By the way, before you can become a citizen of the United States, you have to take all kinds of oaths to support things that the First Amendment would never require you to support.
So there's a big difference between your rights once you're here and once you're a citizen or a permanent resident and what you can say and then expect to get into the United States. Like Oliver and Holmes put it well a long time ago in an opinion involving, I think it was a racist policeman, saying he may have a right to be a racist, but he has no right to be a policeman if he isn't a racist.
And I think that's true at Harvard, too. I don't think you have a right to get awards, get prizes, or generally get federal funding if you're engaged in bigotry, anti-Semitism, violations of Title VI. Let's just... Take this back to the 1950s when I was a college student.
In the South, after Brown versus Board, some Southern schools were still allowing Klansmen to come on campus and harass Black students. They were teaching white supremacy. If in those days the federal government had cut off some funding to those universities, every liberal in the world would be applauding it. Or even go back 20 years earlier in the 1930s, Harvard, under President Conant,
was supporting Nazism. It was sending professors to celebrate Nazi universities that had excluded Jews. It was bringing in Nazi professors and Nazi students. If the federal government had said at that point, no visas for Nazis, even though Nazis have the right to congregate in Madison Square Garden, as they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s, we'd all be applauding that.
So you can't have a separate standard for Jews and for Zion.
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