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Feb 12, 2023, 11:34 PM

Free Speech vs. Hate Speech: Finding the Right Test Case

The question of whether hate speech can or ought to be restricted is hotly debated in both academic and non-academic circles. I believe and will explain that while protected, the protection afforded is and ought to be limited in...

Jan 16, 2023, 9:48 PM

A Thin Majority Does Not a Mandate Make

Similar scenarios are occurring in both the United States and Israel. The electorates are divided nearly evenly and polarization reigns. Thin majorities are beholden to fringe elements in order to hold those majorities, giving excessive power to those fringe...

Aug 16, 2022, 6:14 AM

Good guy with a gun? Prevention or defense?

'Hardening' venues is not a solution: Even where partially effective, armed response is not a strategy for preventing loss of life and significant injury

Jul 6, 2022, 6:46 AM

July 2022 – The U. S. Supreme Court Still Permits Substantial Gun Regulation

Four years ago, I published this article explaining that, despite talking points from partisans on both sides of the question, the Supreme Court’s 2008 ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller explicitly granted both federal and state legislatures a...

Jun 1, 2021, 6:57 AM

Enough With Misuse of “Disproportionate” – Understanding Laws of Armed Conflict

Every time Israel is attacked and defends itself – and the recent eleven day battle between Hamas and Israel is the latest example of it – politicians, pundits, and anti-Zionists assert that Israel (and somehow only Israel despite the...

Apr 10, 2021, 11:06 PM

Dueling Definitions of Antisemitism: IHRA’s Critics and Rebuttable Presumptions

IHRA? The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA), published March 25, 2021? The Nexus Document, also published in March 2021? Which, if any, is best used to define antisemitism. Are criticisms of the first and most widely used definition –...

Mar 4, 2021, 6:44 PM

United States rollout of Covid vaccine distribution is disgustingly incompetent

In an episode of The Big Bang Theory, the nerd friends are sitting on their sofa, waiting for the exact second the Comic-Con website opens up the availability to buy tickets. They do a countdown, and at that precise...

Feb 8, 2021, 7:30 AM

The Legal Flaws of ICC’s Jurisdiction Ruling

On February 5, 2021, the Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court issued a 2-1 decision, finding that the ICC’s Prosecutor had jurisdiction to commence an investigation into possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas in (per the Prosecutor’s...

Nov 28, 2020, 11:16 AM

Georgia Senate Runoff – Raphael Warnock and Israel

Support for Israel MUST be bipartisan. Those of us who support Israel must resist those who try to make it a wedge issue between Democrats and Republicans. There remains reason for concern, nonetheless, about the drift away from Israel in...

Nov 26, 2020, 4:49 AM

A Thanksgiving Wish – Respect and Civility

A friend recently sent me a link to a 2017 video by the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. That video contains many lessons for these divided and divisive times. It is a must watch. The video is entitled “Seven Principles for...

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David H. Levitt practices intellectual property and commercial litigation law in Chicago, and is a pro-Israel activist.