In the wake of the murder of three outside of a Jewish community center in Kansas City, Kansas over the weekend, Harvard University Law School professor Alan Dershowitz joined MSNBC host Ronan Farrow where he discussed strengthening hate crime legislation in the U.S. Dershowitz talked about protected speech in this country and noted that the extreme anti-Semitism is one of the few views the far-left and the far-right in America share.



“When we were kids we learned sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never harm you. That’s a lie,” Dershowitz asserted. “Names hurt. They are horrible, and we shouldn’t be tolerating them in society. But the law under our Constitution can’t move against people simply for expressing views.”

After Dershowitz noted that the alleged shooter in this incident had a history of racism and associating with hate groups, Farrow wondered if being linked to those groups should be a criteria that would prohibit access to firearms.

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Dershowitz went on to note that there are plenty of places online where it is possible for Americans to consume racist views. He specifically cited the proprietor of a blog which, he claimed, is run by a “virulent anti-Semite.” Dershowitz observed that people who are otherwise politically incongruous, like David Duke and Louis Farrakhan, are his heroes.

“Here you have a problem with the extreme left and extreme right have only one thing in common: they hate Jews,” Dershowitz observed.

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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