Posted on 04/22/2026 6:58:12 AM PDT by Twotone
Famed civil liberties attorney Alan Dershowitz says he has abandoned the Democratic Party.
Dershowitz wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that Democrats have become far too anti-Israel for him to continue voting for the party. As a result, he has switched his party registration.
"I am a lifelong Democrat. I started campaigning for the party's local candidates as a teenager in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been a registered Democrat for 67 years, made speeches for John F. Kennedy as a college student, and can count on one hand the number of Republicans I've ever supported for any office," he wrote. "Yet I've decided to bite the bullet and register as a Republican."
The Harvard Law School professor emeritus said he opposes Republicans on policies of abortion, taxes, immigration, and health care, but he will throw his support to them because of Israel.
"I intend to work hard to prevent the Democrats from gaining control of the House and Senate," he continued.
"I will contribute money to Republican candidates, campaign for them, make speeches at Republican events, and urge pro-Israel Americans to change party affiliation or at least vote against Democrats," he added. "Until something changes, I will vote Republican for representative, senator, and president."
Dershowitz left the Democrats and became an independent in 2024, but it appears he has gone further after the party became "the most anti-Israel party in U.S. history."
Dershowitz represented Jeffrey Epstein and was part of the team that obtained a controversial plea deal in 2008 for the convicted pedophile. He admitted to receiving a massage at Epstein's home but vehemently denied that it was a part of the pedophile's trafficking of young women.
He also taught at Harvard University, represented President Donald Trump in his first impeachment, and was on the team representing Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein.
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Let's hope all Jews will do the same!
The party left him, he didn’t leave the party.
Alan Dershowitz needs to join the Likud Party, not the Republican Party.
Now he will get mugged in Harvard Yard.
“Alan Dershowitz needs to join the Likud Party, not the Republican Party.”
He can join both.
Israel is a functionally conservative country. Look at how many years Bibi has been PM cumulatively. The left there and here hates his guts. He’s in charge because conservative Israeli Jews HAVE THEIR MANY BABIES (total fertility rate of 3.1 per mother) and raise them right.
American Jewry has a huge fraction (easily over 60%) who are reflexive leftists. Among that vast majority of leftists is a huge fraction who are positively atheist. For example, at her Bat Mitzvah, my Niece proclaimed that G-d does not exist from the Beema to the polite applause of the audience.
But! Even here, we conservative Jews will win out because WE HAVE BABIES! I am happy to report one granddaughter and one grandson to my very Jewish Daughter and her very Jewish Husband. One hilarious bit is that the recent boy looks like an old Jewish man… in such a stereotypical way, my daughter and I both joke about it.
Which is all good. We will win. We have babies.
To me, MAGA is all about pushing traust fund Republicans and socially liberal but fiscally conservative OUT of the party, to make room for socially conservative, America first and non-brainwashed young people in. Dershowitz can join if he wants, but we cannot let social lefties seize the reins.
You can tell he is actually thinking things through.
He’s basically a Democrat with a head on his shoulders and he can do critical thinking.
He seems a likable guy and I would enjoy talking with him over dinner.
Welcome aboard!
Documenting:
Benjamin Netanyahu has served as Israel’s prime minister in three separate periods:
1996–1999 (about 3 years)
2009–2021 (about 12 years)
2022–present
Adding those together, he has served a little over 18 years in total as of 2026, making him the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history.
Alan Dershowitz can take what he views as his slightly-less-offensive Leftism elsewhere.
So predictable. I’m waiting for the Christmas album.
Correct. 100% A+.
If anything, announcing the formal control of the GOP by Likud (which is what Dershowitz is saying) will magnify the losses coming right up in November.
Never trust a traitor.
Yeah, don’t bet a Torah on that.
Oh. Look. Another 'D' with an 'R' behind his name. Yippee!
Conservative???
From two days ago: "Israel set to host Middle East’s largest pride festival"
https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/world-news/israel-set-to-host-middle-easts-largest-pride-festival/
(Not coincidentally, the festival is at the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth).
Exactly
“....The party left him, he didn’t leave the party...”
Exactly.
The original RAT party has long been dead. It’s name has been seconded by the Communist Party USA! likely bought and paid for by China and Soros. It’s morphed into a domestic terrorist organization that hates you, hates me, hates America.
These communist basstids are hellbent on destroying the USA as we know it any way possible; legal or illegal. And IF not addressed in a dramatic manner, they will succeed.
THey’ve just added Virginia’s scalp to the trophy case with the ugly AWFL SpunkBurger as governor..
That's not Conservative. That's Statism. The United States has been "No Kings" since 1776.
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