The Middle East is on the verge of all-out war.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday Morning with us is Alan Dershowitz, hey one of the leading constitutional lawyers in the world and Harvard Law School professor fifty years, sixty years. But one smart guy, one good friend, and one common sense guy. Professor Dershowitz.

0:21 Where are we talking about Sunday morning? These vice presidential candidates that Kamala Harris picked, any opinion?

0:32 Speaker 2 Well, I think both candidates, both Trump and Harris picked people who are a little bit more extreme than they are. They both had the chance to nominate people who are more to the center and bring the election closer to the center. For example, if Harris had picked either Shapiro or the Senator from Arizona, Kelly, that would have moved

1:03 her a little bit more to the center. But instead she picked somebody to the left of her, kind of doubling down and trying to get the support of the rackles. Rackles are never going to support her. They hate her, They call her, you know, genocide. And I think it’s possible that Trump did the same thing. Instead of moving

1:24 towards somebody like Nikki Haleey or somebody more to the center, he picked somebody who wanted at least some issues like abortion and other issues are to the right. And so the election now is not an election between centrists on the left and centrists on the right. They it tends to be more sharply divided. Now you know, it was

1:49 that good at bad for the country. I leave to the to your listeners, but I think it would have been better in my view, had both candidates moved a little bit more to the centers as centrists. Your listeners are centrists, and they want moderate They want pragmatic results.

2:07 They want you know, better, a better economy. They want they want you know, peace, They want to live with their families. They don’t want these radical ideologies either right or left.

2:18 Speaker 1 Well, the number one thing that I want is, I guess, control of borders, and I don’t think the Democratic Party is going to do that. Control, I agree, and control control the fetanol that’s coming in, killing over one hundred thousand Americans a year. I don’t think the Democratic Party is going to do anything about that.

2:41 Speaker 2 Well, ninety of Americans want to solve the border problem, want to solve petanol problem, want to make sure that Iran is not sending a fift column terrorists. But the people who don’t want it are the loudest. These are the university students who are going to come back to school in three weeks and start destroying universities again, including Harvard,

3:04 where I taught for fifty years and have now been retired for ten years. And I think the Democrats are listening too much to the radical left, and they don’t represent America. And that’s why I think Harris’s choice for vice president reflected giving in to the hard left, the noisemakers, the ones who heckled her yesterday, and we’re accusing her

3:28 of complicit, being complicit with genocide. And she said, very wisely, stop saying that unless you want Trump to be elected. I’m talking now. That was a good moment for her standing up, But it wasn’t a good moment when she didn’t stand up to the left in her selection of the vice presidential nominee.

3:47 Speaker 1 I had a friend of Oz on the radio last night, Marca Cashwitz, and he represents he won against NYU won. He’s going after all the universities for being prejudice against Jewish students, and now he’s going after Harvard. That’s your old What do you think.

4:10 Speaker 2 I’m on his side. I’m not on Harvard side. I’m on his side. He’s right. Harvard is wrong. Harvard has had for years of double standard. You know, you can joke about it. What the former president of Harvard Day basically said is it’s okay to say that Jews and Israel engage in genocide as long as you don’t use

4:31 the wrong pronoun. I mean, she was all in favor of all kinds of censorship of students who use the wrong pronouns, who aren’t sensitive to gay’s, transgender, others. But when it comes to Jews, she applied a different standard.

4:46 Castlewis has caught them on that. He’s a great lawyer, you know, a former partner of David Friedman, the former ambassador from the United States Israel. It’s a great law firm, and they’re doing terrific work going after univeries. And you know, as somebody who’s been involved with universities now for seventy years, I’m going to be eighty six years old. I started

5:08 as a sixteen year old in university, so it’s been seventy years. I’m very close to the universities. But universities are the problem in America today because they’re turning out our future leaders and our future leaders are anti American, anti Semitic, many of them anti you know, decency, anti judio Christian values. They hate people like us because we’re

5:31 Centrists who represent what America stands for. They don’t want to see America succeed. And I think universities are the major problem, and the major cause of the problem is DEI diversity, inclusion and equity and inclusion because it’s against equality, it’s against meritocracy, and it’s going to destroy America. That’s why people like Castlewitz are doing such a great job

5:57 fighting back against the extremes of American universities. I’m part of that battle. And although I’m no longer at Harvard, I’m emeritus at Harvard, I’m still fighting back.

6:08 Speaker 1 No, I agree one hundred percent. And to me, when growing up, I went to NYU Uptown Campus when there was one, and my kids went to NYU Stern and I believe that the kids would be here to learn both sides and make up their own minds, not to be over influenced by anything else.

6:31 Speaker 2 I agree with you. In fifty years of teaching at Harvard, I never expressed a personal view at anything in the classroom. I said to the students. I’m not here to teach you what to think. I’m here to teach you how to think, to be more critical, to be if you’re a conservative, a smarter conservative. If you’re a liberal, a

6:48 smarter liberal. But I am no interested in propagandizing you today. I think many of the professors and many of the administrators want to propagandize. They want professors basically to take a look loyalty, oaths, to DEI, to intersectionality, to all the radical anti American beliefs that today are being propagandized at many American universities. And I’m not talking only about

7:12 the elite universities.

7:13 Speaker 1 Understood, professor, We got one minute left. What do you want to tell Sunday morning? What do we want to tell the American people.

7:22 Speaker 2 I want to tell the africand people to be strong and to be principled and not to compromise on the values that made America great. We want meritocracy. We want people to be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin, or by their sexual preference, or by their race or by their gender.

7:43 We want all Americans, whether they be pilots, sturgeons, or ordinary folks to be judged by what they have done, what their hard work is produced, not by the accidents of biology or things of that kind. We have to all be in favor of meritocracy and against this kind of identity politics that’s destroying America.

8:07 Speaker 1 I agree with you, Thank you, professor. And let’s fight for America. Let’s fight for common sense and that’s what that’s what America needs. And the free world will not be free unless America is strong enough to defend the free world.

8:22 Speaker 2 I agree with you. I’m on your side. Thank you.