Alan Dershowitz Quotes
Those who single out Israel for unique criticism not directed at countries with far worse human rights records are themselves guilty of international bigotry.
Alan Dershowitz, Constitutional Law Scholar and Professor of Law, The Case for Israel, 2003
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This quotation was uncovered in 2010 when more of the Nixon White House tapes were released. Nixon tended to have the worst stereotyped view of all minority groups. At one level, Nixon was just being political by not inviting any Jews except supporters. However, he did not maintain that same criterion regarding Protestants, Catholics, or other religious groups. The reality was that Nixon was generally very anti Semetic but saw some Jews as “good Jews” like his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Golda Meir, the Israeli Prime Minister in whose honor the dinner was being held. See {621141} as an example.
After the Holocaust and the rest of the Nazi era horrors, German leaders have led the way in trying to eliminate any anti-Semitism that emerges in Germany, and the German culture and attitudes have changed dramatically for the better.
Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law, and for controversial political views.
