On July 16th, 2022, Alan Dershowitz posted the following on his substack under the header,

email from a man who got beaten up for reading my book.

Hello, Mr. Dershowitz.

This is not a question, but to comment.

I bought your book from Amazon titled The Case for Liberalism in an Age of

Extremism or Why I Left the Left and Can't Join the Right. My first comment is that I find

it very easy reading and easy for me to understand. The other thing that I

would like to mention to you is something that I've never, ever experienced in my entire life.

I was reading your book yesterday at the beach when some guys who I was playing beach volleyball

with asked me about the book that I was

reading and so I showed them the book. They then asked me why I chose this book and so I told them

that I had a great deal of respect for the author. The next thing that happened came as a total

shock to me.

Without warning, I was slugged and punched in the face.

I asked why was that called for?

And I was told it's because his political viewpoint in mind differ.

I told them that I get it that our points differ, but why can't we at least be civil

about it? With that, he laughed, shoved me once again onto the sand, and kicked sand all over me.

My question to you is why people can have political differences, respect the other's

point of view, and just be civil about it.

Honest to goodness, this is the very first time I've ever experienced such an incident,

and I would appreciate if you could tell me what I did to deserve this,

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