‘Our Enemy Now is Canada’: Alan Dershowitz Calls for ‘Sanctions’ Against Neighbor Over Israel Policy

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Former Harvard Law School professor and Jeffrey Epstein associate Alan Dershowitz declared Canada an “enemy” this week during a pro-Israel event in New York.

“We have to understand who our enemies are. And our enemy now is Canada,” Dershowitz told Canada’s National Post newspaper during the Rage Against Hate conference at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage.

Dershowitz reportedly told the newspaper that Canada had made itself an “enemy” due to its “recognition of a nonexistent entity” – a reference to Canada’s recent recognition of the State of Palestine.

Dershowitz – who recently made headlines over his feud with a Martha’s Vineyard pierogi vendor – also accused Canada of “not doing enough to combat antisemitism” and said he was “in favour of Trump putting tariffs on Canada for its statements regarding Israel and Netanyahu, and even sanctions perhaps.”

Responding to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who is wanted by the International Criminal Court – should he ever set foot on Canadian soil, Dershowitz warned that should such a thing ever happen, he would “go after everybody” involved.

“I will come up to Canada. I will defend Netanyahu, and I will go after everybody who has tried to arrest him,” Dershowitz threatened.

Carney officially recognized the State of Palestine in a statement last month, accusing Netanyahu’s government of “working methodically to prevent the prospect of a Palestinian state from ever being established.”

“It has pursued an unrelenting policy of settlement expansion in the West Bank, which is illegal under international law,” wrote Carney. “Its sustained assault in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of civilians, displaced well over one million people, and caused a devastating and preventable famine in violation of international law. It is now the avowed policy of the current Israeli government that ‘there will be no Palestinian state’.”

He concluded, “It is in this context that Canada recognises the State of Palestine and offers our partnership in building the promise of a peaceful future for both the State of Palestine and the State of Israel.”

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