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He does what so many liberal Jews have done these past few years, hang with the libs and then occasionally make an angry comment about antisemitism. Then back to the Jazz bar to... Plan the Kerry fundraiser...Gripe about Mel Gibson... Act as if Pat Buchanan is important...Ignore Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson...Not worry too much about what's happening in Europe in re Jewry there... Express irrational fear and resentment of Baptists...

The numbers I saw (24%) don't look very significant to me, considering that Kerry would have gladly watch Israel languish and die.

Thank you very much for your thoughtful reply, and I do agree with much of what you say. However, I found a couple of items that may interest you in this matter. First, there's a great bio of Prof. Dershowitz at Wikipedia:

Alan Dershowitz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Included in that bio is this statement:

"He is known for his work as a defense attorney in high-profile cases, as well as his staunch support for the State of Israel."

Furthermore, among his recent writings is "The Case for Israel"

The Case for Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Quote: "The time has come for a proactive defense of Israel to be offered in the court of public opinion. In this book, I offer such a defense -- not of every Israeli policy or action, but of its basic right to exist, to protect its citizens from terrorism, and to defend its borders from hostile enemies."

As I stated in my first post to this thread, I definitely take issue with many of his social and political stands in times past, including his perspective on the 2000 election:

Amazon.com Books Supreme Injustice How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000

but I must confess that on the matter of Israel I am having trouble finding evidence of anything other than strong support from him. Here is another Dershowitz quote that Conservatives will appreciate:

"[Those] who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution by claiming it's not an individual right [are] courting disaster by encouraging others to use the same means to eliminate portions of the Constitution they don't like." — Alan Dershowitz

All in all, with Professor Dershowitz we have a brilliant and complex man whom I will disagree with on occasion but not on all issues.