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but I suspect it will be relevant whenever my obituary appears. That’s ok—as long as I get the last word!

but I was not an uncritical advocate for the Jewish state. To the contrary

but I had a policy throughout my life of setting the record straight with regard to things written about me

as were the earlier changes. I have done nothing different. It is the world around me that has changed with regard to Israel

I was always known as a liberal Democrat aligned politically with the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy

especially regarding settlements.) This has earned me the title of “the Jewish State’s lead attorney in the court of public opinion” and “America’s most public Jewish defender.” It has also earned me the title of “Ziofascist

I felt a real crisis of conscience. I couldn't disprove his arguments or find facts to respond to them with. I didn't know what to believe. I'd blindly followed for so long

but I picked up a copy of Alan Dershowitz's The Case for Israel.

casual antisemitism around me. My father would boast of how Adolf Hitler was a hero

set to the backdrop of Arabic melodies about Jihad and speeches of Hizbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah or Osama Bin Laden.

painting Jews as usurpers and murderers. My views were reinforced when I attended Nakba Day rallies where speakers predicted Israel's demise.

in which I criticized both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict for not doing enough to bring about a compromise peace. Instead

and it was inevitable that it would cross the line into old fashioned and crude anti-Semitism

when we were beyond the range of violence. The intimidation had succeeded. I had been silenced

I could imagine young Nazis in the 1930s in Hitler’s Germany. They had no doubt that they were right and that I was pure evil for my support of the Jewish state

I have little doubt I would have been physically attacked. The protestors’ eyes were ablaze with fanatical zeal.

the birthplace of American independence and liberty. I was receiving a justice award and delivering a talk from the podium of that historic hall on civil liberties in the age of terrorism. When I left

when I began to devote considerable time and energy to the defense of Israel against efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Jewish state. As I entered my seventh decade and looked back on my life’s work

my life changed again. Because of my success as a lawyer

I made another career change. I stopped writing law review articles and started to write books about law for a general audience. My first book