On Wednesday, lawyer Alan Dershowitz returned to a pierogi stand at a farmer’s market in Martha’s Vineyard that refused to serve him.
Last week, Good Pierogi vendor Krem Miskevich recognized Dershowitz and would not sell him the stand’s Polish dumplings. Dershowitz took to his newsletter and YouTube channel, The Dershow with Alan Dershowitz, to call out the vendor.
“As I correctly suspected, the bigot who refused to sell me pierogi — Krem Miskevich — is a notorious anti-semite who is part of an anti-semitic organization that protests Jewish — not only Israeli — cultural events and doesn’t believe in Israel’s right to exist or to respond to what these haters regard as the ‘justified’ massacres of Oct 7,” Dershowitz wrote Monday.
“If I knew that the local rabbi correctly characterized their anti-Jewish protests as anti-semitic, I would never have tried to buy their tainted pierogi,” Dershowitz added. “Neither should you. Don’t patronize anti-semites who refuse to sell to Jewish Zionists. Fight back against bigotry.”
When he filmed his episode, “Why is the world turning against Israel, when Gaza is Hamas’s fault,” Dershowitz changed his tune to say that he would “try to buy the pierogi again,” but with a camera rolling this time.
“I may hand out leaflets about his own background and his history of antisemitism and anti-Zionism so people will know who they’re buying from, but not going to try to stop anybody from buying his pierogi,” Dershowitz said.
Miskevich cited the lawyer’s blog when Dershowitz came to the Good Pierogi booth on Wednesday. Dershowitz brought a signed copy of one of his books, which Mizkevich refused.
“I am very surprised that you’re here because of the things that you’ve been saying about us and the business online,” Miskevich said. “I really do not appreciate what you’ve been sharing in the last week.”
“It’s true,” Dershowitz said.
The crowd around the booth engaged with both Dershowitz and Miskevich as they continued to argue. Miskevich refused to serve any customers or accept Dershowitz’s book. As more people joined the conversation, Dershowitz called Miskevich “he.”
“My pronouns are they/them, and you’ve continued to misgender me,” Miskevich said.
Eventually, Dershowitz left the stand after some in the crowd shouted, “Leave her alone,” and “Go home, Alan.”
Dershowitz claims to be a “critical Zionist,” as he says, “I don’t approve [of] everything Israel does.”
“You can be completely opposed to every policy. You can be opposed to the occupation of the West Bank. You can be opposed to the policies on Gaza. You can be opposed to everything. But if you believe that Israel has the right to exist, then you are a Zionist,” Dershowitz said.