‘You’re Being Biased and You’re Wrong’: Newsmax Interview With Alan Dershowitz Gets Heated

An interview between Newsmax host Eric Bolling and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas became heated on Wednesday after Bolling suggested that Democrats are less friendly toward Israel than Republicans.

After Bolling referenced some pro-Palestine figures and asked Dershowitz, “What’s going on with the new American Democrat?” Dershowitz replied:

Well, it’s not Democrats. Democrats are very strongly supportive of Israel. Biden made speeches three times in the last five to six days. I don’t think Israel could ask for anything more from the Democratic Party. It’s these fringe groups on the hard left, the woke progressives, the Socialist Democrats of America who support Hamas, these Black Lives Matter groups in Chicago that support Hamas.

Bolling responded, “You corrected me professor, and said it’s not Democrats, but I’ll just keep going. Bernie Sanders, a Democrat, today supported Palestine…”

As Dershowitz tried to respond, Bolling put his hand up and said, “Allow me,” before continuing to list Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and declaring, “It is the Democrat Party, sir.”

“You’re being biased and you’re wrong,” Dershowitz shot back:

And you’re confusing the Democratic Party with some fringe people. You know, we believe in democracy in America and so these people got elected, unfortunately. I would never vote for them. I wouldn’t vote for any of those people if they ran against Republicans. I would vote for the Republican. I’m a Democrat, so you’re objecting to me here and that’s just not right.

Bolling insisted that he was referring to “the new American Democrat,” and not traditional Democrats like Dershowitz, before adding, “I challenge you, sir, to show me an elected official on the Republican side who has the same feelings about Israel and Hamas and takes the side of Hamas. I don’t think you’ll be able to find one.”

Dershowitz replied, “Well I can find somebody named Greene who talked about Jews sending space signals from space. You don’t want to be associated with her” — a reference to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

He continued:

I agree with you, the Democrats have more fringe people, and it’s important for people like me to keep marginalizing them, but I will continue to support the Democratic Party. I will continue to support Joe Biden. He made great statements, I think he has been a very good president. You don’t, but the Israelis think he’s been a very good president and that’s more important when it comes to Israel than your views.

Bolling disagreed, remarking, “I don’t think he has. I don’t think he’s been a friend of Israel” and “I don’t think any of these Biden policies are good for Israel and therefore good for Jews.”

Dershowitz, meanwhile, concluded that it was “very harmful to Israel to turn this into a partisan issue.”

He argued, “It’s so much more important to make this a bipartisan issue to emphasize the fact that Biden and Trump agree on this issue, that most Democrats in Congress agree on this issue.”

Watch above via Newsmax.