Professor Alan Dershowitz vs Professor Kontorovich, My Two Favorite Authorities, Debate Each Other--Best Debate in Town

 Nadene Goldfoot                                     

                     Professor Alan Dershowitz, born September 1, 1938, 85 years old in 2 days, US Lawyer sin 1967, professor at Harvard.  He has been a leading spokesman for civil rights and has acted as counsel in many key cases involving civil liberties.  He was the US lawyer for Anatol Shcharansky, and wrote many books, one of which is his autobiography, Chutzpah.  Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz puts Israel’s judicial reforms into proper perspective in this discussion.  

Eugene Kontorovich (born 1975), age 48,  is a legal scholar, specializing in constitutional and international law.  Professor of Law Eugene Kontorovich is one of the world’s preeminent experts on universal jurisdiction and maritime piracy, as well as international law and the Israel-Arab conflict. He is also the Director of Scalia Law School's Center for the Middle East and International Law. Professor Kontorovich joined the Scalia Law School from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law where he was a Professor of Law from 2011 to 2018 and an Associate Professor from 2007 to 2011. Previously, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago from 2005 to 2007 and an Assistant Professor at George Mason School of Law from 2003 to 2007.

Retired US attorney Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz debated Eugene Kontorovich, professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law, specializing in constitutional and international law, and Director of the International Law Department at Kohelet Forum, about Israel’s judicial reform. While Dershowitz starts out critical of the reform, as Professor Kontorovich gives him examples showing him the true situation not being reported by the media, Dershowitz ends up agreeing with most of the reform. As Dershowitz said himself:

Interestingly, Dershowitz highlights the only reason there are protests at all in the streets of Israel is because the reforms were brought up by this Bibi Netanyahu, right-wing government. Had these same reforms been brought up by any other Israeli government, as previous governments have brought them up, there would be no massive protest movement.

Dershowitz admitted that the protests against judicial reform are a surrogate for “we don’t like Netanyahu, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir” and he even criticized American Jews for getting involved in this issue.

Dershowitz also admits that most people protesting the 

judicial reforms have no idea what they are even 

protesting against.

As I have written about previously here, here, here and here the Jewish/Israeli public is being fed outright lies by the media and the unhinged political leaders of the left. They are creating a tremendously dangerous social situation in Israel, that is totally avoidable if our leaders and media would be responsible. Instead, they are being irresponsible creating social tension by spreading the overall lie that these judicial reforms are a coup that will destroy Israeli democracy and turn Israel into a dictatorship.

Even Dershowitz recognizes that those are all lies, totally 

misrepresenting the actual judicial reform.

Resource:

update: 8/30/23-after losing much of what I had written earlier..problems with blogging

https://www.israpundit.org/alan-dershowitz-debates-judicial-

reform-with-eugene-kontoovich/

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-734600

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/left-vs-right/dershowitz-vs-

kontorovitch-on-judicial-reform-a-surprising-agreement-not-a-

debate/2023/03/16/    update 8/30/23   NEW