{"id":326,"date":"2024-09-08T04:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=326"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:24:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:24:15","slug":"alan-dershowitz-famed-liberal-democrat-lawyer-and-scholar-leave-the-democrat-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=326","title":{"rendered":"Alan Dershowitz, famed liberal Democrat lawyer and scholar, leaves the Democrat Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/6a00d834525a2f69e202c8d3bf1f2b200b-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11222\" title=\"Alan_dershowitz_2009_retouched_cropped\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This should be big news &#8211; similar to Liz Cheney saying she&#8217;s voting for Harris &#8211; but it will not make the headlines of the NY Times or really any of the major media &#8211; except FOX. Hit this link for <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Dershowitz\">Dershowitz<\/a> bio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/alan-dershowitz-announces-departure-from-democratic-party-citing-anti-zionist-dnc\/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=breaking&amp;utm_campaign=newstrack&amp;utm_term=36661687\">Attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is leaving the Democratic Party after being \u201cdisgusted\u201d by the recent Democratic National Convention, which he described as \u201canti-Zionist.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a recent radio interview with Zev Brenner, Dershowitz criticized the convention for giving legitimacy to anti-Israel speakers and anti-Israel protesters outside the convention in Chicago last month.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was the most anti-Jewish, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist convention I\u2019ve experienced,\u201d he said. \u201cI was disgusted at the Democratic National Convention. Absolutely disgusted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am no longer a Democrat. I am an Independent,\u201d he said, though he wouldn\u2019t say who he plans to vote for in the November matchup between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris. He said he might not reveal who he plans to vote for until after November 1.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI want to see how they deal with Iran. I want to encourage the current administration to support Israel,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should be big news &#8211; similar to Liz Cheney saying she&#8217;s voting for Harris &#8211; but it will not make the headlines of the NY Times or really any of the major media &#8211; except FOX. Hit this link for Dershowitz bio. Attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is leaving the Democratic Party after being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}