Soho Forum Debate: Alan Dershowitz vs. Glenn Greenwald

Monday, May 20, 2024 6:30 PM ET

Alan Dershowitz vs. Glenn Greenwald

Resolution:

The United States should strike Iran's nuclear facilities.

For the Affirmative:

Alan Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. From 1964 to 2013, he taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed as the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law in 1993. He is the author of several books about politics and the law, including (2003); and (2005). His two most recent works are (2018) and (2019). In January 2020, he joined President Donald Trump's legal team as Trump was being tried on impeachment charges in the Senate. He is a strong supporter of Israel, self-identifing as both "pro-Israel and pro-Palestine," and writing, "I want to see a vibrant, democratic, economically viable, peaceful Palestinian state existing side by side with Israel."

For the negative:

Glenn Greenwald is a constitutional lawyer, investigative journalist, and best-selling author. Acclaimed as one of the 25 most influential political commentators by The Atlantic, one of America’s top 10 opinion writers by Newsweek, and one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers for 2013 by Foreign Policy, Greenwald’s fiercely adversarial reporting has won the highest awards in journalism around the world, including the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the NSA-Snowden revelations. Leaving The Intercept—which he co-founded—in 2020, he is now an independent journalist and host of SYSTEM UPDATE nightly on Rumble.

About the Event:

Debate Location:

Peter Jay Sharpe Theatre

Symphony Space

2537 Broadway

New York, NY 10025

Debate Details:

6:00 PM: Doors Open

6:30 PM: Meeting Convenes

Reception Location:

TBD

ALL tickets must be reserved in advance.

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