David H. Levitt

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May 24, 2025, 1:50 AM

Steps to Prevent the Next Antisemitic Attack?

After the murder of two young Israeli embassy staff members in Washington, D.C. at the Jewish Museum, the condemnations (sincere and insincere) from domestic and foreign governments and various NGOs are rolling in, along with the obligatory statements that...

Mar 25, 2025, 2:54 AM

On Mahmoud Khalil, NY Times Misrepresents Speech Law

The March 2025 arrest of green card holding Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil for his alleged role in leading the anti-Israel protests, building take-overs, and campus encampments has unsurprisingly sparked vigorous advocacy about the merits of that arrest. Too many...

Nov 22, 2024, 8:09 AM

ICC Continues to Ignore and Deform the Rule of Law

I am hardly an apologist for Benjamin Netanyahu. His conduct since forming the current coalition, initiating the “judicial reform” controversy, and failure to protect Israeli citizens – and the hostages – before and since the October 7, 2023 pogrom...

Nov 3, 2024, 12:20 AM

Jewish Members of Congress Should Not Treat Us Like Children

In a Times of Israel blog post published on Friday, November 1, 2024, perhaps deliberately published just before the Tuesday election, four Jewish members of Congress (Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Brad Schneider, Kathy Manning and Greg Landsman) explain why they believe that Kamala Harris...

Oct 2, 2024, 5:57 AM

Two Antisemitism Bills in Congress – Enact Both

When it comes to defining antisemitism, if there is one progressive drumbeat that trumps all of the others, it is opposition to use of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism. Week after week after week, for...

Sep 4, 2024, 2:14 AM

Is Teaching Hate Coming to a U.S. K-12 Public School Near You?

With the news on September 1, 2024 that six more Hamas hostages were executed by their captors a short time before they were found, following news about ten days earlier when the bodies of six other Hamas hostages were...

Aug 6, 2024, 10:43 PM

ICJ Ruling Deforms International Law into Non-Law

There is no way to sugarcoat it. As a lawyer, it is abundantly clear that the majority opinion, titled “Legal Consequences Arising From The Policies And Practices Of Israel In The Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem,” is so...

Mar 25, 2024, 12:13 AM

Why Are “Red Lines” Only On Israel?

As an American Zionist Jew with Israeli family, I’d have been out at the protests against the Netanyahu government every week during the judicial reform efforts. The actions of Netanyahu’s coalition forfeited any presumption of good faith or legitimacy. Nonetheless,...

Feb 24, 2024, 9:22 AM

A Lawyer’s Review – the International Court of Injustice

As a practicing litigation attorney for nearly 45 years, I know that no lawyer wins every case. Sometimes the facts or the law are against the lawyer’s side of the case. Sometimes the judges and juries just get it...

Feb 14, 2024, 2:29 PM

Anthony Blinken’s false moral equivalency

There is always a “but.” US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, speaking at a press conference in Tel Aviv on February 7, 2024, compared Hamas’s October 7 barbarity with Israel’s defense of its citizens: “Israelis were dehumanized in the...

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David H. Levitt has practiced intellectual property and commercial litigation law in Chicago for over 45 years. He serves as co-chair of the DePaul College of Law Center for Jewish Law & Judaic Studies Advisory Board, on the board of the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, and is founder and chair of his law firm's Jewish Cultural Heritage Employee Resource Group, among other activities in the Jewish community.

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