Former Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz has likened anti-Semitism and anti-Israel protests on college campuses to the early Nazi Germany of the 1930s, and fears these “Hitler Youth” students could become future leaders of the United States.
“This is very similar to what happened in Germany in the early 1930s, when Nazi students prevented Jews from attending college. This is a very similar precursor to what happened in the 1940s,” Dershowitz said Sunday. 77 WABC’s “Cats Roundtable” radio show.
“[During] “At the recent Harvard graduation ceremony, students walked out. They were dressed in support of Hamas. They stood with Hamas. These are our future leaders,” he told host John Catsimatidis.
“What I worry about is that in 10 or 15 years, these Hitler Youth will be in parliament, they will be on the editorial board of the New York Times, they will own media outlets and they will replace the stability that our Constitution requires with their own radical, progressive, anti-American insanity,” he continued.
Dershowitz, a constitutional and civil rights lawyer who has been a vocal critic of anti-Israel protests on campus, said he plans to start a group called “If You Hurt a Jewish Person, We’ll Sue You.”
The man he was referring to was James Carlson (aka Cody Carlson, aka Cody Tarlow, a “longtime anarchist,” police sources say), a wealthy professional agitator who was a leader in the violent protests at Columbia University.
“This doesn’t just apply to Jews. Two cleaning ladies who were kidnapped and held captive by rich Columbia University grads and outsiders, boys who own $2 million or $3 million houses in Brooklyn, should be sued and held accountable for their actions,” he said.
“We have to fight back.”
He also said the university is “going to hell” by mandating diversity, equity and inclusion programs (a form of affirmative action) and not prioritizing merit in hiring and policies.
“Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is fundamentally anti-Semitic, anti-intellectual, anti-progressive and anti-meritocratic. The number one enemy of the far left today is meritocracy,” Dershowitz said.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology has eliminated its DEI program, and a similar effort is underway at Cornell University, The Washington Post reported last week.
