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 | Alan Dershowitz: The Zionist Caricature By Gilad Atzmon 
 Al-Jazeerah, CCUN, January 9, 2012 
	
	
	 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Could it be that 
	Zionist-caricature Alan Dershowitz has resorted to comedy as he desperately 
	tries to win his battle against me and my book?  What else could 
	explain this intellectually retarded Zionist mouthpiece’s repetition of the 
	same old lies? A few years ago Norman Finkelstein established that 
	Dershowitz is a plagiarist, but now Dershowitz extends this infamous title - 
	Now, he’s actually plagiarising his own phantasmic fibs! Just a week before Hanukah, 
	fancying himself as a bit of a music critic, Dershowitz described me as an 
	‘obscure saxophonist’. This was amusing enough, but yesterday Dershowitz 
	elaborated on his notion of ‘obscurity’. In an embarrassingly unimaginative 
	and vindictive 
	article he called Chicago University 
	Professor of Philosophy Brian Leiter a “relatively obscure professor of 
	jurisprudence”. For a native English speaker (and a Harvard Professor) 
	Dershowitz sure has a limited English vocabulary. Professor Leiter’s crime was obvious enough: he stood up 
	for freedom of expression and open debate. He defended Professor John 
	Mearsheimer who has endorsed ‘The Wandering Who’ and refused to bow to vile 
	and relentless Zionist pressure to withdraw his praise for the book. To read Professor Leiter’s 
	article click here. Ethnic cleanser advocate 
	Dershowitz writes. “Without 
	bothering even to read Atzmon's book, Leiter pronounced that Atzmon's 
	‘positions [do not mark him] as an anti-Semite [but rather as] 
	cosmopolitan.’ Leiter also certified that Atzmon ‘does not deny the 
	Holocaust or the gas chambers.’ Had Leiter read the book, he could not have 
	made either statement.” 
	 Dershowitz’ continues “Atzmon himself credits ‘a man 
	who…was an anti-Semite’ for ‘many of [his] insights’ and calls himself a 
	‘self-hating Jew’ who has contempt for ‘the Jew in me (him).’ If that's not 
	an admission of anti-Semitism, rather than ‘cosmopolitanism.’” But is this really an ‘admission of antisemitism’? Let’s 
	examine Dershowitz’ intentionally lame, convoluted and misleading argument. 
	To start with, the ‘Antisemite’ whom I indeed follow, is Otto Weininger, one 
	of the most influential intellects of pre- WWII Europe. But, it is not 
	Weininger’s alleged ‘antisemitism’ that I follow as I clearly note in my 
	book, but actually Weininger the genius philosopher. It is also true that I 
	am a ‘self hater’ and even a ‘proud self hater’ - an intellectual position 
	still legal in the West. It is also true that I oppose the ‘Jew’ in me, but 
	how does that make me into an antisemite? By opposing the Jew in me, I 
	oppose only an ideology.  Basically, I reject all the symptoms 
	Dershowitz and other Zionists manifest in every and each of their relentless 
	Judeo-centric hasbara campaigns i.e. supremacy, duplicity, brutality, 
	vindictivess, ignorance and arrogance.  Furthermore, I do not and 
	cannot oppose or hate the ‘Semite’ in me. This is simply because there is no 
	such a quality in me. Unlike Dershowitz and his Zionists ilk, I do not think 
	in racial terms. I am honest enough to admit that I am no ‘Semite’ and that 
	my ancestry lies not in Palestine. I am probably some kind of Khazarian 
	mongrel – as is Dershowitz and most European Jews. Dershowitz continues, “Leiter 
	went so far as to condemn those who dared to criticize Mearsheimer for 
	endorsing Atzmon's book, calling their criticism ‘hysterical’ and not 
	‘advance[ing] honest intellectual discourse.”  Professor Leiter is actually spot- on in here. 
	Prophetically he manages to describe Dershowitz’ tantrum - the Zionist 
	advocate is clearly hysterical as he tries desperately to block intellectual 
	debate and exchange. On numerous occasions I have invited Dershowitz for a 
	debate, but it seems the Zionist caricature would not or could not take the 
	risk. Dershowitz is evidently as much a coward as he is a loudmouth.   Towards the end of his rant 
	as Dershowitz reaches his climax, Professor Leiter becomes just a category 
	namely ‘the Leiters’.   
	“The Leiters of the world”, says 
	Dershowitz, “are an important part of the 
	reason why anti-Semitic tropes are creeping back to legitimacy in academia.” This 
	has left me puzzled. What about the ‘remote’ possibility that it is actually 
	the Dershowitzes of the world who, by their misbehaviour and by their 
	support of the criminal Jewish State, are bringing shame and even disaster, 
	God forbid, on the Jews? I cannot understand how one of America’s alleged 
	‘leading lawyers’ can fail to see that his shameless behaviour may well be 
	the root cause of the rapidly emerging anti-Jewish feelings in America and 
	beyond.  But it seems as if Professor Leiter, Professor Richard 
	Falk, Professor Mearsheimer and myself are not alone. According to 
	Zionist-parody Dershowitz, we are in a good company. Leading Republican 
	Candidate Ron Paul has also found his way into becoming a target for 
	Dershowitz’ impotent rage. Paul is accused of being affiliated with, guess 
	what, ‘anti semitism’ and ‘holocaust denial’. 
	
	For some reason, Dershowitz, one of the most despised Zionists ever, seems 
	to believe that he holds the moral high ground. “Shame on them!” he 
	proclaims referring to Professor Leiter and  Ron Paul.  Well, 
	Dershowitz must know quite a bit about shame - He sure brings a lot of it on 
	himself and on every Jew and Zionist foolish enough to associate with him 
	and his message.     To read a complete deconstruction of Dershowitz' lies click here. To read the Dershowitz attack on 
	Rep Ron Paul Professor Leiter and myself click here. 
	 
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