Alan Dershowitz nominated Jared Kushner for a Nobel Peace Prize

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Alan Dershowitz nominated Jared Kushner for a Nobel Peace Prize, citing his work getting Arab states to recognize Israel

By Ashley Collman



Alan Dershowitz, the star attorney who helped defend former President Donald Trump at his first impeachment trial, nominated Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner for a Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday, Reuters reported.

Dershowitz, who has also defended OJ Simpson and Jeffrey Epstein, wants Kushner and his former White House deputy, Avi Berkowitz, acknowledged for their work normalizing relations between Israel and four Arab nations.

The Abraham Accords were hatched between August and December 2020, and involve the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco agreeing to recognize Israel's sovereignty. The UAE and Bahrain became the third and fourth Arab states to recognize Israel.

As a professor emeritus at Harvard, Dershowitz has the ability to make a nomination to the Nobel Committee.

The committee will then come up with a shortlist of candidates in the spring and announce a winner in October, according to the Nobel Prize website.

Others nominated for the prize this year include the jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the climate change activist Greta Thunberg, and the World Health Organization. All three of those nominations are backed by Norwegian lawmakers, who have a track record of picking the winner, according to The Guardian.

Trump was also nominated for this year's prize by a far-right Norwegian lawmaker, who also cited his administration's work on the Abraham Accords.