Dershowitz at 86: A Gaslighting Apologist Defending Genocide

Desperate to justify genocide, Alan exposes the crumbling facade of Israeli propaganda and his own intellectual collapse.

There was a moment, somewhere between Alan Dershowitz’s third invocation of “Israel’s right to defend itself” and his muddled legalese about proportionality, when it became clear: this was not a debate. It was a performance. A desperate, sputtering attempt by an 86-year-old man to outrun history’s judgment using lies.

Dershowitz, once a self-proclaimed civil libertarian, now spends his days justifying the unthinkable—massacres of civilians, the starvation of a population, the forced displacement of an entire people. He is not an advocate of human rights; he is a lawyer for war crimes, his legal acrobatics serving as scaffolding for a collapsing apartheid state.

The argument is always the same. Reframe the genocide as a “conflict.” Pretend that a nuclear-armed state and a starving, besieged population are equals. Justify war crimes as “self-defense.”

But let’s speak plainly.

Israel has killed over 65,000 Palestinians—civilians, not “Hamas operatives.” It has bombed hospitals, bakeries, refugee camps. It has blocked food, medicine, and water from reaching 2.3 million people. And now, it openly plots their mass expulsion to East Africa, resurrecting colonial horrors once thought unrepeatable.

If Dershowitz had an ounce of intellectual honesty, he would not be defending this. He would not be twisting international law to excuse ethnic cleansing. He would not be gaslighting the world into believing that an occupied people have no right to resist their own extermination.

Instead, he does what he has always done: protect power, no matter how monstrous.

The Collapse of Dershowitz’s Credibility

For decades, Dershowitz built his brand as a defender of civil liberties. But what is left of that legacy?

• He defended Jeffrey Epstein, then smeared his victims.

• He defended torture, arguing that the state should have the right to brutalize prisoners if it deems it necessary.

• He defended Israel’s targeted assassinations of civilians, calling it “legal.”

• And now, he defends genocide.

This is not the work of a human rights lawyer. This is the work of an ideologue—one so committed to Israel’s impunity that he will defend the indefensible until his last breath.

Genocide Dressed in Legal Jargon

Dershowitz insists that this is not genocide. That Israel is simply “defending itself.” That the International Court of Justice is biased and is “a fake court”. That the death toll is Hamas’s fault.

But what do the facts say?

• Israeli officials themselves have declared their intent: Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Defense Minister, called Palestinians “human animals” before cutting off their food, water, and medicine.

• The Israeli army has systematically targeted journalists, doctors, and humanitarian workers, killing thousands of them including UN staff.

• Israeli leaders have openly discussed forcing Palestinians out of Gaza permanently—reviving the Madagascar Plan under a new name.

Alan knows what we call the mass killing of a people, the starvation of children, the destruction of homes, the erasure of an entire identity? It’s called a genocide.

The Fragile Myth of Israeli Democracy

Dershowitz clings to the idea that Israel is a democracy under attack. But a democracy does not bomb hospitals. A democracy does not shoot journalists in cold blood. A democracy does not expel and imprison its critics.

And let’s talk about Netanyahu—the man Dershowitz defends so eagerly.

If this war were about hostages, Netanyahu would have accepted the ceasefire deal. He would have prioritized bringing them home. But he didn’t. Instead, he escalated. Why? Because his survival depends on war.

• His government is collapsing.

• His security chief, Ronen Bar, is investigating him for corruption.

• His far-right allies demand more Palestinian blood.

So he does what every desperate autocrat does: he manufactures a permanent state of war. And Dershowitz, ever the loyal apologist, plays his part.

The Verdict of History

Dershowitz will not win this argument. Not because his rhetoric is weak (though it is), but because reality is stronger.

No amount of legal obfuscation can disguise the truth: this is genocide. And those who defend it—Dershowitz, Netanyahu, Biden—will not be remembered kindly.

The world is watching. The world will remember. And history will not absolve them.

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