Jewish Blood Is No Longer Cheap - (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Professor Alan Dershowitz calls upon the Jewish people to rise up in order to prevent recurrences of past tragedies--to learn the lessons of tragic miscalculations, try hard to anticipate the future, and act to influence it in real time. To assure "never again," he argues that Jews and their nation-state Israel must undertake preventative and preemptive measures and not rely only on reacting to dangers that are clear and present. Failure to see parallels to past disasters or to take preventive measures increases the likelihood of comparable horrors, currently or in the future. Striking an appropriate balance is desirable, but the crucial lesson of Jewish history is that if mistakes are inevitable, and they generally are, it is better--or at least less worse--to err on the side of overreacting than underreacting to impending existential threats.

About the Author

Alan Dershowitz is one of the most celebrated lawyers in the world. He was the youngest full professor in Harvard Law School history, where he is now the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus. The author, most recently, of Trump to Harvard, Palestinianism, The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies, War Against the Jews, and Get Trump; and of numerous bestselling books, from Chutzpah to Guilt by Accusation to The Case Against Impeaching Trump to Reversal of Fortune (which was made into an Academy Award-winning film) to Defending Israel, Dershowitz has advised presidents and prime ministers and has represented many prominent men and women, half of them pro bono. Philosophically, he considers himself a constitutional libertarian, a meritocratic egalitarian, and a constructive contrarian.