Dershowitz: Not Surprising ‘Ignoramus’ Bernie Sanders Tapped ‘Professional Israel-Hater’

[ericson00]

https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/25/dershowitz-not-surprising-ignoramus-bernie-sanders-tapped-professional-israel-hater-for-democratic-policy-committee-interview/

Dershowitz, a fierce defender of Israel and avowed supporter of the Democratic Party, was referring to Arab American Institute (AAI) President James Zogby, whom Sanders tapped on Monday to help draft party policy.

Dershowitz, who said he’s debated Zogby on numerous occasions, explained why he is “not surprised” that the senator from Vermont contending for the Democratic nomination picked him to fill such an influential position. “Bernie Sanders is an ignoramus when it comes to the Middle East, and he is very strongly biased against Israel. He gets his information from hard-Left, anti-Israel sources, and he doesn’t think for himself,” he said.

Regarding another of Sanders’ anti-Israel appointees to the committee — philosopher Cornel West, a BDS proponent who wrote that the crimes of Hamas “pale in the face of the US-supported Israeli slaughter of innocent civilians,” and accused President Obama of being “most comfortable with upper middle-class white and Jewish men who consider themselves very smart, very savvy and very effective in getting what they want”– Dershowitz said, “Putting two Israel-bashers on the committee risks dividing the Democratic Party over an issue on which they’ve always been united.”

[arcane1]

1. You seem to hate outspoken black men more than Sanders hates Jews

[tazkcmo]

2. If it pisses Dershowitz off

It makes me happy.

[emulatorloo]

3. Dershowitz? Do some research before you get in bed with him.

[ericson00]

4. yes, he's actually a loyal Democrat and a real believer in civil liberties

but doesn't buy into the kook stuff

[Wilms]

5. He said "research".

Not the reviewing of notes your buddy made.

[ericson00]

6. what, is he a "neocon," a "right-winger" etc.?

lollololol

[DonCoquixote]

9. like torture warrants?

http://www.spectacle.org/0202/seth.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2003/LAW/03/03/cnna.Dershowitz/

and this op ed in his OWN words.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/09/07/the-case-for-torture-warrants/

Of course, who cares about those that get tortured, they ain't us, right?

[ericson00]

11. I'm sorry that Dershowitz (nor our POTUS, or most mainstream Dems) are part of the extreme

anti-war ANSWER Coalition crowd that would rather let an airport explode than use rough (but not permanently physically damaging) tactics to protect Americans.

[DonCoquixote]

24. if you let torture warrants go through

someday, they will use it on you. You think that there are not many good Christian folk willing to torture Mr. Dersowhitz or other Jews because they opposed letting Christians turned education into an arm of the church.?

http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/14/news/mn-32054
http://archive.adl.org/issue_religious_freedom/faith-freedom/faith_freedom_schools-2.html

You should know the line..."first they came for..(etc)

[SusanLarson]

28. Treaty obligations

We signed a treaty that said we would not do that.

The Constitution says, "This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

So we cannot do that.

[LiberalArkie]

7. A lot of cases of defending the people on the street I can tell.

Much of his legal career has focused on criminal law, and his clients have included high-profile figures such as Patty Hearst, Harry Reems, Leona Helmsley, Jim Bakker, Mike Tyson, Michael Milken, O.J. Simpson and Kirtanananda Swami.

[malokvale77]

8. i can't wait to see how many people here...

will jump to agree with a frequent flyer on the Lolita Express.

This should be interesting.

[virtualobserver]

12. they didn't think this one through

[malokvale77]

18. Apparently pedophiles and torture enablers are OK...

as long as they are willing to bash Bernie.

[virtualobserver]

10. Flight Logs Put Clinton, Dershowitz On Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet

http://www.lacorruption.info/2016/05/18/flight-logs-put-clinton-dershowitz-on-pedophile-billionaires-sex-jet/

What’s more, Dershowitz told the American Lawyer, he is loyal to his wife, who is always by his side: “I’ve been married to the same woman for 28 years. She goes with me everywhere. People know that I won’t argue a case or give a speech unless my wife travels with me. This is not the profile of someone who screws around.”

But according to the flight logs, Dershowitz was close enough to Epstein to have accompanied him on a flight from Palm Beach to New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport as early as December 1997. On that flight, the pair was accompanied by a number of people, including one unidentified “female,” a “Hazel,” a “Claire,” and Maxwell.

The logs also show Dershowitz on a flight with Epstein from Bedford, Mass., to Teterboro in October 1998, and a flight from Teterboro to Martha’s Vineyard in 1999. And a 2005 trip from Massachusetts to Montreal shows him traveling with Epstein, “Tatianna,” and others.

One things the logs don’t show: Dershowitz’s wife traveling with him.

[MariaThinks]

26. Guilt by associaton? Not American.

[Fumesucker]

31. More like "guilt by flying on an airborne under age harem"

[virtualobserver]

34. you are known by the company you keep

[Fumesucker]

13. To a Freeper Alan "Torture Warrants" Dershowitz might look like some sort of liberal

But actual liberals know better.

[ericson00]

14. Dershowitz is a lifelong Democrat who endorsed Hillary and then Obama in 2008

and Obama in 2012, as well.

[Fumesucker]

16. There is the source of your confusion, I wrote "liberal" and you read "Democrat"...

Freepers aren't good with nuance, either.

[ericson00]

17. this is Democratic Underground. If mainstream normal Dems like Bill/Hill Clinton and Dershowitz

aren't good enough for you, go vote for Stein/Johnson.

[Fumesucker]

20. Bill Clinton shares something else with Dershowitz besides being a Democrat

Riding on the Lolita Express without the wife.

[MariaThinks]

27. calling a Duer a freeper is a stretch

[Fumesucker]

30. You need to parse my words as carefully as those of your candidate

I called them poor at nuance.

One of those "the meaning of "is" is" things...

[Scootaloo]

29. And he's still a piece of shit.

[King_David]

15. “Putting two Israel-bashers on the committee risks dividing the Democratic Party

That's what Bernies plan seems to be.

I don't even think it's about Israel at all......

[ericson00]

19. Israel is the messiest divide in our party, even tho Israel is much more popular than Palestinians

in the party overall, because it pits those who think the Democratic Party is insufficiently pacifist against those who know that force is sometimes necessary, it pits those who like a party for the middle class but don't like Jews (and who often thinks the Jews are the reason the party 'sells out the poor') against those who don't mind Jews, Israel haters tend to hate all capitalism whereas supporters normally don't hate all capitalism, it shows the anti-Semitism brewing (which yes, is a form of racism since "racism" refers to racial OR ethnic hatred, and Jewry is an ethnoreligion (both a religion and ethnicity), it pits the academic left with their "critical race/skin color theory" and the Holocaust "merely being white on white violence" against people who know know the struggle Jews faced, etc. (Weirdly enough for the Cornel Wests and even Van Joneses out there, black voters tend to support Israel, but the "critical race" side of the left can't stand that)


Bernie wants to tear the party apart, I'm more convinced than ever. The Israel divide speaks to worldview, view of America in the world, view of

[King_David]

21. Unfortunately it seems so...

[elleng]

22. Dershowitz is the ignoramus,

in addition to being extremely 'rude.'

[ericson00]

23. he's only a distinguished Felix Frankfurther Professor of Law who doesn't just

pull "theories" out his arse like Cornel West; Dersh knows important and useful truths, not hatefilled fantasies of Obama being a "n-word-ized" POTUS.

[elleng]

25. I'm a lawyer too,

tho not a professor of law anywhere. I followed Dershowitz until he seemed to lose it, and lost respect for him.

I also lost respect for Cornel West.

[ericson00]

35. he's actually a distinguished endowed chair one from Ivy League schools

both in his degrees and teaching. Unless I'm talking to a famous person acting anonymously, that doesn't seem to be you.

[elleng]

36. Not me.

Dershowitz lost it some years ago.

[cali]

38. He's a real creep

I know that from personal experience.

[Little Tich]

32. 31 replies, not a single rec - the Dersh isn't very popular at DU, it seems... n/t

[malokvale77]

33. Cooties? nt

[King_David]

39. He's Jewish/ Zionist ... Go figure . nt

[geek tragedy]

37. Dershowitz and Cornel West have similar temperaments nt