Newsmax loves Alan Dershowitz so much that he’s a favorite talking head for its TV channel and was graced with a documentary film trying to clear him of involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal (for whom he worked as an attorney) and then was a Newsmax talking head on all things Epstein. So of course Newsmax would run to Dershowitz’s defense over a pierogi incident on Martha’s Vineyard. He was allowed to whine about it in a July 31 Newsmax appearance:
Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus, found himself in a pickle over pierogis on Martha’s Vineyard this week and is “fighting back” against what he deemed discrimination on the island, telling Newsmax he’s never visited a “less tolerant place” than Chilmark, Massachusetts.
At issue is that a Farmers Market vendor, Good Pierogi, refused to sell Dershowitz pierogies over his “political views,” Dershowitz told “The Record With Greta Van Susteren.”
Dershowitz is mulling legal action against the Famers Market.
“I go to the Farmers Market every week on Martha’s Vineyard. I’ve been doing it for 50 years … and they always treat me very nicely. And they did yesterday,” Dershowitz began. “And then I went to a place called Good Pierogi … I said, ‘I’d like pierogies.’ And they said, ‘No … we won’t serve you pierogies. We don’t like your political views.’
“My suspicion is it was my Zionism. But he then said, ‘I don’t like your clients.’ And I said, ‘But you know, you’re a booth that sells to the public. You can’t discriminate against Black people or gay people. You shouldn’t be able to discriminate against people,’” Dershowitz went on.
“But when this happened, many of the people at the Farmers Market supported the guy and said, ‘Well, we don’t like Dershowitz. He supported Donald Trump, he supports Israel.’ So I was not sold my pierogi,” he said.
Actually, the owner of the pierogi stand has stated that he denied service to Dershowitz because he chooses to befriend and defend men who have been accused of abusing and harming women, such as Epstein, Donald Trump and O.J Simpson.
When Dershowitz was again denied service by the pierogi vendor, an Aug. 7 article by Solange Reyner recounted his complaints:
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz was once again refused a pierogi from an unwilling vendor at a Martha’s Vineyard market, the latest in his controversies over pierogis in the celebrity hot spot.
Dershowitz on Wednesday confronted Good Pierogi owner Krem Miskevich at the West Tisbury Farmers Market after the vendor refused to sell him the popular eastern European dumpling last week.
“I’m here in an effort to try to restore community and to ask you to sell me pierogi 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,” Dershowitz told the vendor.
Reyner made no effort to contact the vendor for his side of the story.
When a pierogi vendor hundreds of miles away offered Dershowitz free pierogi for life, Newsmax dutifully wrote it up in an Aug. 10 article:
A South Florida restaurateur is pledging a lifetime supply of pierogi to famed attorney Alan Dershowitz after the former Trump lawyer said he was refused service by a dumpling vendor on Martha’s Vineyard over his political views, the New York Post reported Sunday.
Peter Nowocien, a Polish immigrant and owner of Pierogi One in South Florida — and a member of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club — told the Post that “no one should be denied a pierogi, or food,” regardless of politics.
“Pierogi should bring people together — not divide them,” Nowocien said.
Given that Dershowitz is 86 years old, Nowocien isn’t exactly losing much with his offer.