I'm Being Smeared Again to Stop My Pro-Israel Speech

The campus newspaper, The Miami Hurricane, wrote an article about the invitation entitled: "Who Is Alan Dershowitz and Why Is He Coming To Campus?"

The article misstates many of the facts, falsely claiming that I was accused of sex with an underage woman, and that I "frequently" visited Epstein’s private island.

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Both are provably false.

Canes for Palestine then proceeded to elaborate on its poster by telling the Hurricane that "pedophiles and victim blamers are not welcome on campus." ...

The truth is that I did absolutely nothing wrong, and the only reason the false accusation is being raised again is because Canes for Palestine, according to The Miami Hurricane, have started "a widespread media campaign" against "his presence on campus."

Ed Morrissey

Dersh says he plans to find out who has passed around those accusations and will sue for defamation. That'll be a heavy lift in court, although that's not to say his anger is unjustified. As a 'public person' under the Sullivan standard, he'd have to establish 'actual malice' to prevail, which means something other than its normal conversational definition. But perhaps the threat of such lawsuits might at least shut down the cancel-culture machine at the University of Miami. 

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