This farmers market on Martha's Vineyard refused to sell to him because of his beliefs, but he ended up getting the last laugh. Do you really want to buy pierogi from a guy who won't sell it to somebody based on his politics? I think that would be wrong. You wouldn't buy from somebody you didn't sell to a black people or gay people or [00:00:17] transgender people or anything like that. At that point, the police came. Alan Dershowitz, they're attempting to make Pierogi Gate a thing. But it's just not going to happen, Alan. Not this time. Recap video posted by Alan Dershowitz earlier this week to again make [00:00:36] himself seem like the victim, after pierogi vendor refused to sell to him at a farmer's market last week. Anna and super producer Kate covered the story last week while you were out Jang. But, I guess we'll get your initial thoughts because there's so much more [00:00:53] that we need to get into here. And now I'm hungry for pierogies. Yeah, so I really thought that Alan Dershowitz, not being able to eat the pierogi of his choice was one of the larger issues in the country. So I'm glad that it's risen back up, in, in American politics. [00:01:12] But seriously, the entitlement complex that Dershowitz has and how supporters of Israel try to intimidate anyone and everyone who dares criticize Israel is amazing. [00:01:28] And in this next altercation that Alan Dershowitz started with them again, you're going to see him accused several people of being anti-Semites. You want to guess what religion they are? All right, well, you'll see in a minute. [00:01:44] Yeah. We'll give you a refresher. The entire situation, as we said, happened last week, after the owner of the good pierogi food stall refused to serve Dershowitz because they disagreed with his politics. And I walk across the. Area. [00:01:59] And there was the pierogi place, the pierogi place where you could get the kind of things my grandmother made. I had some time before my drink was ready, so I went there and I said, oh, can I, can I have six pierogi? And he said, no. I said, oh, you've run out of pierogi. [00:02:16] Too bad. No, no, no, we have plenty of pierogi. I just won't sell them to you. What do you mean you won't sell them to me? 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. The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump [00:02:36] on the floor of the Senate. I was a Zionist. I noticed the week before I went there and I was wearing my other shirt. I wasn't wearing my farmers market shirt. I was wearing proud American Zionist shirt, proud American Zionist, red, white and blue. [00:02:51] And I, I recall that he looked at it strangely, but I didn't talk to him. In detail here from Dershowitz. Two things to note. First, the co-owner of the pierogi stand, crem mashkevich goes by. [00:03:07] They them, and they've corrected Dershowitz multiple times of that fact. Second, private businesses have the right to refuse service to people unless it's discriminatory under federal law. Political affiliation is not a protected class when it comes to discrimination. [00:03:22] It is in some state and local jurisdictions, but not Massachusetts. So what's happened since our initial reporting? Well, we'll tell you, Dershowitz announced on social media that he would return to the market to demand that he be served. In the days leading up to the latest confrontation, Dershowitz had claimed [00:03:41] that he was refused service because of his identification as a Zionist, calling the interaction discriminatory against his Jewish religion. He even circulated fliers at the market on Saturday claiming the vendors were anti-Semitic. [00:03:56] He openly tried to switch it from politics to religion because that's a protected class. But things came to a head yesterday because, true to his word, Alan Dershowitz tried to yet again, basically demand miscovich sell him pierogies. Didn't work. This time he brought a gift, signed copy of his book, [00:04:15] which Miscovich and their wife refused. They don't want the book. Okay. And no pierogies. Okay. Sadly, I can't show you the video of the confrontation, but here is what was said. I'm here in an effort to try to restore community and to ask you to sell me pierogi. [00:04:31] In the interest of keeping the island together so we don't have to have two pierogi stands, one for anti-zionists and one for people who will sell to anybody. So I'd ask you to please just sell me any one of your products to show that you're prepared to sell to anybody and not allow your anti-Zionism [00:04:50] to decide which people you'll sell to. Miscavige tried fighting back, but Dershowitz continued to call them and others defending them bigots and anti-Semites. He also tried to use the fact that they protested the Jewish Cultural Festival [00:05:05] as proof of their anti-Semitism. None of this work and riled people up more. My grandparents died in the Holocaust. Don't you call me an anti-Semite, protested one man, while another market [00:05:20] goer said, My Jewish culture is a history of resistance to genocide. We are not anti-Semites. We stand against oppression of all people. Talia Weingarten, one of the Jewish cultural festival protest organizers, last year, also clarified to Dershowitz that the protest [00:05:37] was not anti-Semitic but was peaceful. Peaceful stand against oppression and genocide. Dershowitz was eventually escorted out of the farmers market. Sad, angry, embarrassed and pierogi less. Something that's important to note as well. Prior to the second confrontation, Miscavige clarified a few things [00:05:55] that Dershowitz missed. Apparently, that probably would have been helpful to him. When Dershowitz came to our booth, I experienced a surge of emotion. As a chef, I love to share what I cook with the public, regardless of who they are. In this case, what was in the forefront of my mind was the fact [00:06:11] that this was the high profile attorney who represented several sexual predators and abusers, including Jeffrey Epstein. I have no desire to argue about the legal system in the US or one's right to a fair trial, but I personally know too many sexual abuse survivors. [00:06:28] Mr. Dershowitz consciously decided to befriend and defend men who have been accused of abusing and harming women. Selling to Alan Dershowitz was the equivalent to supporting his decisions and statements. And now, here's the kicker. [00:06:45] I do not wish to argue with Mr. Dershowitz about Israel. I am Jewish. Members of my immediate family live in Israel. I love Shabbat baking. My friends call me Rabbi Creme and I have personal relationships [00:07:03] with both rabbis on island. Prior to this incident, good pierogi had never refused service to anybody. It wasn't just Rabbi Creme. [00:07:20] So many others. And as we read the one comment, one proclaiming I'm Jewish and I don't support you, basically paraphrasing, do you think people are tired of these gimmicks? They're tired and they're not even creative. [00:07:35] They don't. It's not even like people like Dershowitz are trying very hard anymore. They're still going with the same thing they went with 20 years ago. But circumstances and world events have called him out. Yeah. So, defenders of Israel, like, [00:07:54] have it automatic reflex. Like, you know, if you hit the knee in the, your foot goes up, like that, you say like, oh, it rained in Israel today. Anti-semite. Wait, there was a random small politician in the Knesset [00:08:12] who was convicted of corruption. Anti-semite. Well, hold on, I'm not. What do you mean, anti-Semite? But they killed over 20,000 children. Anti-semite, blood libel. Anti-semite. Right. So, like, you can't say anything about Israel without being called an anti-Semite. [00:08:28] It's a one trick pony. And to your point, that pony is dead and they're beating a dead pony. Okay, so in this video, I'm sorry that we can't show it to you guys. Sharon just explained it to you, but I want I watched it and it was hilarious [00:08:45] because he's like, you're an anti-Semite, and that person's like, I'm Jewish. He's like, you're an anti-Semite. That person's like, I'm Jewish, you're an anti-Semite, I'm Jewish. Okay. Like it was. And then one of the guys is like, my grandparents were killed in the Holocaust, as Sharon told you. The other one was like, they call me a rabbi. [00:09:01] The other one is. And my favorite, though, was one of the people that was at the booth and refusing to serve him. She said, look, it's part of Jewish culture to resist genocide. I mean, I don't know that there's anything more core to the Jewish culture, right? [00:09:19] And I love that person. That's she's totally right about that. You're supposed to, first of all, you're supposed to question people in authority. You're supposed to question the rabbi. That's part of what I love about Jewish culture. Right. And so and and so certainly you're supposed to challenge your own tribe, [00:09:35] etc., and you're supposed to stand up for the powerless, and you're supposed to stand up for people who are victims and being abused, etc.. So Alan Dershowitz does the exact opposite. He stands for the powerful who are doing the abusing, and he's done that his whole life. So now, look, as a lawyer, I get that somebody has to do it. [00:09:54] But I want to tell you a little bit about that. And then I want to go back to the what he's done with Israel. So he didn't just he mentioned. Oh, yeah, they probably didn't like that I represented Trump. You're leaving out a couple of people. He also represented Jeffrey Epstein and O.J. [00:10:09] Simpson and Claus von Bulow, let alone many others. If you don't know, because Klaus von Bulow is a little old school. He killed his wife. But don't worry, Dershowitz got him off. He was convicted originally and then won on appeal. Okay. O.j. Also got off Jeffrey Epstein. [00:10:26] Well, you know how that ended. Okay. So now. But you're a lawyer. That. That's how our system works. Somebody needs to defend them, right? But in none of those cases. Was Alan Dershowitz a court appointed lawyer? No, he jumped out of his seat. I'll defend them. [00:10:42] I want to be rich and famous. Oh, you killed your wife. Oh, give me me, me me, pick me, pick me. Oh, you also killed your wife and the random waiter. Me me me. Pick me, pick me, pick me, pay me, pay me, put me on TV. Oh, Jeffrey Epstein, you raped hundreds of young women. [00:10:59] Pick me, pick me. I'm Alan Dershowitz. I want to be famous. Okay, so that's who he is, Donald Trump. Same thing. - Oh, no, I didn't get served up. - Dude, there's. 61,000 dead Palestinians. There's over 20,000 dead Palestinian children. [00:11:16] They killed. They starved 90 children to death in just the last two weeks. But you didn't get a pierogi, and you want us to cry for you. But that's the entitlement complex of Israeli supporters. [00:11:33] And I don't mean Israeli supporters overall. I mean, in this current regime, the one conducting the genocide, the one that is 50 times the terrorist that the Hamas is having killed, that many civilians, having killed 500 times the number of children that Hamas has. [00:11:49] And, you know, Alan Dershowitz might as well put on a cheerleader outfit, get some pom poms, get his old shorts, classic Alan Dershowitz shorts back on the ones he had while getting a therapeutic massage, at Epstein's. [00:12:08] Alan, that you said it. You were there. You got a massage. But he says it's okay. I had my shorts on. Did you also have the cheerleader outfit on? So he then goes and goes. You see, the Palestinians being starved to death are not the real victims. [00:12:24] I am the real victim. Put me back on TV. I want to be famous. - I'll defend. - Anyone. You murdered your wife. You call Alan. Dershowitz right away. Don't get it. Publicly appointed lawyer. Don't get any other lawyer. I want all the fame. Okay. [00:12:40] That's who this guy is. So is it surprising after he's defended murderers his whole life and enthusiastically so that he would go defend the murderers in the Israeli cabinet and the Israeli government? Like Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, one of some of the most evil men [00:12:57] of our lifetimes. No, that's what Alan Dershowitz does. He bathes in evil. Let me guess, Alan. Anti-semite. No one cares anymore, okay? You abuse that word so much that I'm worried that when real antisemitism rises, [00:13:15] people, nobody's going to believe it because they're going to think, oh, yeah, somebody didn't get a pierogi, right? Oh, yeah. Somebody was against the genocide. So they got called an anti-Semite, right? So when people like Alan Dershowitz abuse that word so much, [00:13:32] it makes people now, like there's young people growing up saying, oh, you haven't gotten called an anti-Semite. Aren't you fighting the genocide? Oh. You're not. Oh, like maybe you're not a good enough person. Because everyone who gives fights the genocide. All the most moral people on earth trying to end one of the worst genocides [00:13:48] of our lifetimes. All those wonderful human beings have all gotten called anti-Semites by people like Alan Dershowitz. You're turning it into a badge of honor. It's like sick what you're doing. But my bad. I forgot for a second you're the real victim. [00:14:05] Because that's twice you couldn't get a pierogi on Martha's Vineyard. And, guys, last thing. Think about this, Sharon. He's complaining about not being able to get that particular pierogi when he wants it, while children in Gaza are starving to death. [00:14:27] And he says anyone who doesn't, who agree that Israel should murder those children is an anti-Semite. Anyone who doesn't sell him a pierogi is an anti-Semite, even if they're all Jewish. Because this isn't about anti-Semitism. This isn't about being Jewish. [00:14:45] This is about protecting a genocidal state, because that's what Alan Dershowitz does. - He defends murderers and gets off on it. - I think you're right. And I also think you're right about he's bringing people into action, [00:15:00] people who were perhaps just at the fair and just at the market doing what they do, and now they're speaking up. The more he does this, the more people say, you know what? Now, I'm really going to say something here where I was maybe even shamefully sitting on the sidelines, or I was saying things quietly in my home. [00:15:19] Now more and more people are speaking up. We should also tell you we'll button it with this. The Vineyard Gazette reports that a record turnout for pierogies after refusing Dershowitz. So business can still be good. You can stand up for the right thing. And, still be good. [00:15:36] Okay. Sharon. I'm sorry. I literally have breaking news on this story. I can't believe we have breaking news on this story. Alan Dershowitz, this is a media headline that just came across Alan Dershowitz claims defenders of pierogi vendor who denied him service are, quote, a Hamas supporting group. [00:15:54] Stop it. - Stop it. - So, wait, so the Jewish people who didn't sell your pierogi support Hamas because they're anti-genocide? There's no end to it. There's no end to it. [00:16:11] Just please go away. Alan Dershowitz, do everyone, including yourself, a favor? I mean, every time you come out here, we got to talk about how you kept your shorts on. You say? Right, and how, anyway. [00:16:26] But unsurprising that he's defended Epstein and Netanyahu, two of the most evil men on Earth. Oh. Let me guess. Allen. Oh, we criticized you. So we are anti-Semites and support Hamas. You guys are so boring. [00:16:42] And you're all so stupid, and no one believes a word you say anymore. So keep running your mouth like an idiot. One last thing about how arrogant Alan Dershowitz is. It's like if you criticize me, you hate all Jews. No, brother, I love Jews, I hate you. You don't stand for all Jews. [00:17:00] Like. Like if you don't support me supporting a genocide, you hate all Jews. No, brother. No. Nobody hates all Jews. We hate you. We're united in how disgusting a person you are. Stop pretending. You represent all Jews. [00:17:18] Yeah. And the other Jews got pierogies and discussed how much they hate him. - That's what. - Happened. - That's exactly right. - It's that simple. Every time you ring the bell below, an angel gets his wings. Totally not true. But it does keep you updated on our live shows.