Alan Dershowitz Claims Defenders of Pierogi Vendor Who Denied Him Service Are ‘A Hamas-Supporting Group’
The great Martha’s Vineyard pierogi caper entered its ninth day as Alan Dershowitz continued to lay verbal siege to a food vendor who denied him Eastern European dumplings.
On Thursday, the former Harvard Law professor escalated matters when he accused the vendor’s supporters of backing Hamas.
Trouble began on July 30, when Dershowitz attempted to purchase pierogi at a Martha’s Vineyard farmers market, only to be denied service by the vendor.
“I don’t approve of your politics,” he claimed the “bigoted vendor” told him. Dershowitz said the vendor is “anti-Zionist.”
After an acrimonious exchange, a police officer arrived on the scene in an interaction that was posted to Instagram. Later, Dershowitz took to his Rumble channel to give his account of what happened. He pledged to sue the farmers’ market. On Wednesday, Dershowitz took another run at the pierogi vendor, whose dumplings he had previously described as just “ok.” The vendor still refused service, much to the delight of onlookers, who became increasingly agitated as Dershowitz persisted in his pierogi pursuit. At one point, he accused the crowd of “bigotry.”
One onlooker shouted, “My grandparents died in the Holocaust! Don’t you call me an anti-Semite!”
Members of the unruly island crowd chanted, “Time to go!” Eventually, Dershowitz left the farmers market, sans pierogi.
On Thursday, the professor emeritus appeared on Bolling! on Real America’s Voice, where he said Martha’s Vineyard is less tolerant than Russia and China.
“You talk about debanking,” Dershowitz said. “I’ve been de-pierogied. They won’t sell me a pierogi. But, you know, it’s part of the Martha’s Vineyard culture. They have banned me from the library. They have banned me from the book fair, banned me from the Hebrew Center, the Reform Hebrew Center, which is very anti-Zionist. They have banned me, basically, from Martha’s Vineyard because I defend Donald Trump and because I defend the state of Israel. This is a group of people who, right after October 7th, were calling for a ceasefire. There was no fire to cease. And they were saying that October 7th was the fault of Israel.”
Host Eric Bolling asked, “Where are you headed with the Martha’s Vineyard crowd?”
“Well, we’re trying to create a new rule for the hot farmers’ market,” Dershowitz replied. “Farmers’ market is supposed to build community. So we want to have a rule that if you are allowed to have a booth to sell corn and tomatoes or pierogi, you have to sell it to everybody.”
He went on to accuse the Vineyard crowd of supporting Hamas:
Many of the people who came to support [the pierogi vendor] were the same people who had protested Israel after October 7th. Remember October 7, 1,200 Israelis were killed, 250 were kidnapped, and yet this group supported Hamas. So, it’s very much a Hamas-supporting group that is supporting this pierogi vendor. And I’m going to fight back.
Later, he said Martha’s Vineyard is a more oppressive place than some of the world’s biggest authoritarian countries:
But the most important thing is to understand that if you come to up-island Martha’s Vineyard, and you’re not a woke, progressive, hard-left person, you darn well better keep your ideas to yourself, because this is the most intolerant place I have ever lived. I’ve lived all over the world. I’ve lived in China, I’ve lived in Russia, I’ve lived all over. I visited Cuba. I have never seen a more intolerant place than up-island Martha’s Vineyard where, you know, if you don’t say what they want you to say, you are completely canceled.
Watch above via Real America’s Voice.
