Alan Dershowitz, ex-RHONY star could be Trump’s antisemitism envoy
Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz is under consideration to serve as President Trump’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, people with familiar with matter told The Post.
The position, an ambassador-level gig requiring Senate confirmation, is currently held by historian Deborah Lipstadt.
“Dershowitz is being considered. . . . People who care about this are pushing it,” said one person close to Trump.
“He’s a brilliant defender of the Jewish people, a fighter, and has enough intellectual integrity to oppose all the lawfare against Trump, even [when he was] a Democrat.”
Dershowitz, 86, was spotted walking around Mar-a-Lago last week, chitchatting with club members.
The longtime lawyer served on Trump’s defense team during his 2020 impeachment trial and regularly defends the president on Fox News.
He’s advocacy has even gotten him cancelled in Martha’s Vineyard, where he has a home.
Dersh, however, could be facing competition from glamorous social media influencer Lizzy Savetsky.
Savetsky, 39, has been an outspoken defender of Jewish people online, and was faced with a torrent of online abuse for her pro-Israel stance after she was announced as a star of Real Housewives of New York in 2022, prompting her to ultimately step away from the show.
Savetsky was recognized for her work fighting antisemitism by Mayor Adams earlier this week.
Savetsky is married to plastic surgeon Ira Savetsky who made headlines (and earned death threats) for offering free plastic surgery to victim’s of Hamas’ Oct 7 attack.
Her cause is being championed on the inside by Trump fundraiser Blair Brandt.
Other insiders note that being a beautiful social media star isn’t hurting her chances with Trump.
Others in the mix reportedly include Ellie Cohanim, who served as the deputy special envoy during the first Trump administration and Brooke Goldstein, founder of the nonprofit Lawfare Project, which specializes in using litigation to fight antisemitism.
“[Goldstein] wants it badly. She’s running around telling everybody she was born for this job,” an insider said.
Dershowitz, Savetsky and Cohanim declined to comment.
Goldstein told The Post she would be “honored” to receive the appointment and would happily accept the job if offered.
The special envoy position was first created in 2004 after Congress passed the Global Antisemitism Review Act. The office “advances U.S. foreign policy on antisemitism” and has an annual budget of $1.75 million. In his first term Trump left the office vacant for two years, before finally naming attorney Elan Carr to the post in 2019.
The role will likely be more high profile this time around.
Trump made fighting antisemitism a cornerstone of his 2024 presidential campaign, with bold promises to bring peace back to the Middle East and crackdown on antisemitism at home.