Dershowitz to Newsmax: ‘Great Fear’ Protesters Will Become Terrorists

Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, gathering on his experience from seeing Vietnam War protesters he defended in the 1960s and 1970s turn to terrorism, said Thursday on Newsmax that he has a “great fear” that the same fate could happen with some of the pro-Palestinian protesters gathering at the nation’s colleges and universities.

“I defended a lot of these protesters against the Vietnam War, and what happened is quite a few of them turned from being protesters to being terrorists,” Dershowitz told “Wake Up America.” “They became members of the Weather Underground.”

He noted that one of the protesters who he advised was the late Kathy Boudin, who ended up serving 22 years in prison after her conviction in the 1981 robbery of a Brink’s money truck.

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