Alan Dershowitz Says He’s Suing Farmer’s Market After ‘Bigoted Vendor’ Denied Him Pierogi

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Alan Dershowitz said he is suing a Martha’s Vineyard farmer’s market where a “bigoted vendor” refused to serve the former Harvard Law professor pierogi because of his politics.

Dershowitz, a former Democrat who represented President Donald Trump in the first impeachment trial, has frequently lamented his pariah status on Martha’s Vineyard, the posh vacation spot for the wealthy and often liberal.

On Wednesday, Dershowitz posted on X and said he is suing.

“Bigoted vendor @ Martha’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market refused to sell to me for political reasons. I’m suing,” he posted, along with a link to his Rumble channel, where he said that he was just denied the six pierogi he ordered from a vendor.

“There was the pierogi place,” he said. “They’re Ukrainian, Russian delicacies. And I had gone there a few times before, and I bought the pierogi. They were ok. They were not my grandmother’s pierogi, but they were ok.”

Here is the exchange between Dershowitz and the vendor – in Dershowitz’s telling – of pierogi denied:

DERSHOWITZ: Can I have six pierogi?

“BIGOTED VENDOR”: No.

DERSHOWITZ: Oh, you’ve run out of pierogi? Too bad.

“BIGOTED VENDOR”: No, no, no. We have plenty of pierogi. I just won’t sell them to you.

DERSHOWITZ: What do you mean you won’t sell them to me?

“BIGOTED VENDOR”: I won’t sell them to you because I don’t approve of your politics. I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.

DERSHOWITZ: What is it about my politics that you don’t–

“BIGOTED VENDOR”: I’m not gonna tell you. I just don’t like your politics.

“The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate,” Dershowitz added. “I think that’s illegal.”

An Instagram user posted a video of the aftermath of Dershowitz’s exchange with the vendor. A police officer approached the food stand, and Dershowitz explained, “He won’t sell me.”

“Come over here for a sec,” the officer said, guiding Dershowitz away from the stand. “We’ll talk.”

Dershowitz, who was filming the interaction with his phone, told the officer that he believed the vendor was violating Massachusetts law. The officer responded by saying that, based on his experience in the restaurant industry, private establishments have the right of refusal, but said Dershowitz could pursue his complaint through “civil means.”

In another Martha’s Vineyard kerfuffle in 2021, Dershowitz alleged that comedian Larry David screamed at him at a general store.

“And now Larry David comes up to me on the porch of the Chilmark store and starts screaming at me,” Dershowitz said, adding that David called him “disgusting.”

Dershowitz also alleged that in 2013, then-President Barack Obama skipped his 75th birthday because he refused to disinvite Geraldo Rivera.

In August 2023, Dershowitz complained on Newsmax that his books are no longer allowed at the Martha’s Vineyard Fair.

“I’ve been canceled,” he rued.