Alan Dershowitz: Telling the Truth About Chief Justice Rehnquist (BARF ALERT!)

Huffington Post ^ | 9/5/05 | Alan Dershowitz

[austinite]

Somebody, please ZOT this, please ....

[Beth528]

Alan Dershowitz,is an ugly democrat..I think he gets up in the morning looks at himself in the mirror and it ruins his day so he goes out and tries to ruin ours..What a liar this man is..

[Fury]

To others on this thread complaining about Dershowitz's remarks about Stanford, you seem to be sliding over the fact that he indulged in anti-semitic humor, including "goose-stepping", wearing "brown shirts" and saying "sieg hiel". These things do not necessarily make a bad supreme-court justice, but they do indeed represent solid evidence of anti-semitism. It is Dershowitz's claim that his subsequent judicial record also reflects prejudice, and I don't know enough about it to confirm or deny.

I'd be more comfortable with your assertion of the above as facts if Mr. Dershowitz had provided sources for the comments so indicated. It's easy to make claims without a source - and it makes it almost impossible for the accused party to refute the accusations.

[Shalom Israel]

Ordinarily, people retarded enough to admire Hitler, don't complete law school...

That's a pretty dumb statement. Charles Lindbergh was retarded? How about Henry Ford?

[evolved_rage]

On second thought, you are a jerk. Don't call me anti-semetic, because I called Douche-wits a jewish supremacist. Perhaps you are one as well. Long live the JEWISH state of Israel is my firm belief.

Your no better than a poverty-pimp playing the race card.

[evolved_rage]

Lindberg and Ford were perfect in every way. "ORDINARILY" was the word I used. WTF.

[evolved_rage]

And I'll say it, Lindberg and Ford are morally retarded.

[Shalom Israel]

I'd be more comfortable with your assertion of the above as facts if Mr. Dershowitz had provided sources for the comments so indicated.

I wasn't confirming that Dershowitz's claims are factual; only that if true they are certainly adequate evidence of antisemitism. A search on "William Rehnquist" and "antisemite" turns up little or nothing, so I agree that Dershowitz needs to back up his statements with evidence.

[sauropod]

mark

[Fury]

I wasn't confirming that Dershowitz's claims are factual; only that if true they are certainly adequate evidence of antisemitism. A search on "William Rehnquist" and "antisemite" turns up little or nothing, so I agree that Dershowitz needs to back up his statements with evidence.

I'm sorry for not clarifying further and apologize for that. I was referring to your initial posting in which you wrote:

"...you seem to be sliding over the fact that he indulged in anti-semitic humor, including "goose-stepping", wearing "brown shirts" and saying "sieg hiel". These things do not necessarily make a bad supreme-court justice, but they do indeed represent solid evidence of anti-semitism."

[Shalom Israel]

On second thought, you are a jerk. Don't call me anti-semetic, because I called Douche-wits a jewish supremacist.

I'm willing to be proven wrong. It's highly suspicious that you reached so quickly for the red-hot rhetoric, however.

[Mamzelle]

Dershowitz donates to and provides support for Anti-Israel candidates. He writes occasionally in support of Israel, then does everything he can politically to aid and comfort the pro-Palestinians. The whole arrangement crosses my eyes. He is like so many liberal Jews that criticize the struggling Israelis because their orthodoxy embarrases them.

Instead of obsessing over Buchanan, Falwell, or even this bizarre accusation of a judge from way in the past...it would behoove those who love Israel to try to get American Jews back on the side of Jerusalem. That is, the 75% of US Jewry who voted for the fashionable pro-Pali left.

One of the reasons that antisemitism is rising, IMO, is that the antisemites realize that they have nothing to fear from the large majority of American Jews. They can get away with it. Jewish loyalty to the left far surpasses loyalty to Israel or Judaism.

This is the big problem.

We need Jews back on board. I don't know how to do it. It will be left to the few conservatives...so why waste energy on Buchanan lookalikes?

[evolved_rage]

It's highly suspicious that you reached so quickly for the red-hot rhetoric, however.

It's highly suspicious that YOU reached so quickly for the red-hot rhetoric, however.

[SoFloFreeper]

When he was nominated to be an associate justice in 1971, I learned from several sources who had known him as a student that he had outraged Jewish classmates by goose-stepping and heil-Hitlering with brown-shirted friends in front of a dormitory that housed the school’s few Jewish students. He also was infamous for telling racist and anti-Semitic jokes.

How nice...Dershowitz could've made these accusations while Rehnquist was alive and could answer the charges....but instead, he chooses to wait until he's dead.

[Brilliant]

Yes, but he's senile.

[Shalom Israel]

It's highly suspicious that YOU reached so quickly for the red-hot rhetoric, however.

Um, you started it. Neener neener? This is devolving into a food fight. Truce.

[Lunkhead_01]

I discriminate against Jews named Dershowitz as well as ones named Ders-no-witz.

[Shalom Israel]

Truce??? Go F yourself.

OK, antisemitic or not, you're a jerk. Have a good life.

[Shalom Israel]

We need Jews back on board. I don't know how to do it. It will be left to the few conservatives...so why waste energy on Buchanan lookalikes?

Fair question. I know next to nothing about Dershowitz, but did read his excellent book, "The Case for Israel". Some pointers, links or search terms would be helpful.