High-profile attorney Alan Dershowitz said he’s leaving the Democratic Party and registering as a Republican.

“I first registered as a Democrat in 1959. The party’s hostility to Israel is too much,” Dershowitz wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal.

“I am a lifelong Democrat. I started campaigning for the party’s local candidates as a teenager in Brooklyn, N.Y., have been a registered Democrat for 67 years, made speeches for John F. Kennedy as a college student, and can count on one hand the number of Republicans I’ve ever supported for any office,” Dershowitz wrote.

“I still disagree strongly with the GOP on abortion, the separation of church and state, immigration, healthcare and taxes, among other things. Yet I’ve decided to bite the bullet and register as a Republican,” he continued.

“I believe that the Democratic Party’s hostility to Israel represents a deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and toward a radical approach that is bad for America and the free world. So I intend to work hard to prevent the Democrats from gaining control of the House… and Senate, and I urge those who share my concerns about the increasing influence of radicalism in the Democratic Party to vote, campaign and contribute for continued Republican control of Congress,” he said.

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The announcement formalized a political evolution for Dershowitz, who defended Trump during his first impeachment and has increasingly broken with Democrats over Israel in recent years.

In 2021, Dershowitz nominated Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and Avi Berkowitz, Trump’s top Middle East envoy during his first administration, for the Nobel Peace Prize over their hand in shaping the Abraham Accords.

Dershowitz — who has recently faced scrutiny over his ties to Epstein, and previously denied allegations of sexual misconduct made by one of the disgraced financier’s accusers — panned the Democratic Party as the “most anti-Israel party in US history” in the op-ed.

“There is no denying that the hard left, anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has moved from the fringe to the mainstream,” Dershowitz wrote.

“Republicans have their own antisemitic fringe, but for now it remains a fringe,” he added.

“My priority is on foreign policy, the defense of Israel, the defense of American patriotism and values, and I think the Democrats are becoming a party that is not only anti-Israel and anti-western, but anti-American,” Dershowitz told Mark Levin.

“And I can’t stop until I see them defeated,” he added.

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Dershowitz also spoke with Greta Van Susteren about his decision to leave the Democratic Party:

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