"Dershowitz told The Algemeiner in an interview: “I can’t imagine a worse person to honor for conflict resolution. Here’s a man who has engendered conflict wherever he goes. He has encouraged terrorism by Hamas and Hezbollah. He was partly responsible for Yasser Arafat turning down the Clinton-Barak peace offer.” "
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"In another part of his interview, Dershowitz pointed out that “Carter during his presidency sat idly by while 2 million Cambodians were killed by Pol Pot.” But that, reprehensible as it was, is not what interests me here. What interests me is how Jews could give an award to such a person. What strange delirium compels it?"
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"I think we can say that Alan Dershowitz has largely kept his moral compass. Jimmy Carter is another matter."....
Jimmy Carter to be Honored by Yeshiva University’s Law School Amid Alumni Opposition "Meanwhile, a number of Cardozo alumni plan to use civil disobedience to block Carter from attending the event.
" “Mr. Carter ain’t going to get anywhere,” Daniel Rubin, 62, told the Forward. “There’s no reason for a school that has any sense of Jewish integrity to have a guy like that around,” he added."
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