The absolute, most fundamental
principle of justice is that when you evaluate the merits of a case, you
endeavor to see the case, see only the case and see nothing but the case.
That is, you avoid the
temptation of relating the conduct of the defendant to his associations, be
they racial, religious, doctrinal, political or what have you.
In other words, singling out
the case is a prerequisite to reaching a just verdict. Prosecutors, defense lawyers
or judges who miss that principle, have no place in the administration of
justice, and should be doing something other than decide the guilt or innocence
of citizens.
Despite half a century of
learning on the job, Alan Dershowitz has failed to grasp that principle. You
can see it in the article he wrote under the title: “Is the 'Black Lives
Matter' Platform Antisemitic?” published on July 9, 2020 in the online Jewish
publication, Algemeiner.
In fact, Dershowitz spent his
entire “professional” life trying to convince the world that regardless of its
deeds, Israel should be allowed to get away with the rape of Palestine, the
murder of its young and the harvesting of their organs because it is the ONLY
Jewish state among the nations of the world, and has a good record on the
environment, gay rights and gender equality.
This is like the unrepentant
pedophile and murder-rapist who tells the jurors they must find him not guilty
so that he may go out and continue to murder adults and rape children. These should
be forgivable acts, says he, given that when he is not committing crimes, he
spends time telling others about the environment, gay rights and gender
equality. How much better can someone get?
This discussion came up
because Alan Dershowitz repeated his “demand” that Black Lives Matter rescind
the portion of its platform describing Israel as an apartheid state involved in
genocide. To explain his thinking, he says that he must resort to the use of a
hypothetical case so as to deepen the analysis of the problem. And so,
Dershowitz came up with the following analogy:
“Imagine a world in which
there was only one Black African nation. Further imagine that an environmental
group were to publish a platform in which it criticized the environmental
policies of its own nation, but then singled out the Black nation from among
all the other polluters in the world for criticism. Would anyone hesitate to
describe the singling out of the world's only Black nation for unique
condemnation as an act of bigotry motivated by anti-Black racism?”
Perhaps Alan Dershowitz can
point to something that he or any Jew has written in which they criticized the
Palestinians for something, but then immediately added that to be fair they
must also mention that the Jewish Defense League, the Hagenah and the Irgun
terrorist organizations as well as the Israeli military and the Jewish settlers
in Palestine should be condemned for their savagery and beastly conduct.
Of course, Dershowitz will
never produce such a piece because there is none. It is that neither he nor
anybody walks around carrying long lists of everything offensive that everybody
has committed, so that when criticizing someone, they can mention who else
should be criticized for similar offenses. And so, when Dershowitz or any Jew
or his sidekick claim that Israel is unfairly singled out, they do nothing less
than rape their audiences in the head, the heart and the soul. They should stop
this filthy habit because all it does is show the world that they are lowlife,
no-good and useless interlocutors.
Let it be known to these
characters that Black Lives Matter has adopted the Palestinian cause because it
is a trait of the human species to develop affinity with people who suffer the
same kind of pain as the self. The phenomenon is called empathy. Given that
there are many similarities between the conditions under which the Palestinians
are forced to live in their ancestral homeland, and those that the African
Americans are forced to live in the land of their birth, it was natural for the
latter to empathize with the Palestinians.
The most important of the
similarities, is that day in and day out, the Palestinians are made to suffer
an indignity never seen anywhere but in America under two similar conditions. It
happened to African Americans at the hands of lynch mobs, and happened for a
short period of time, to women working for executives who were sexual predators
on steroid.
Think about it. Aggression
involves one of four kinds of attacks: rape, murder, robbery or insult. Victims
everywhere and throughout time, suffered one or the other of these attacks at
the hands of an aggressor. The exception being what happened in America. It is
that Black victims were both killed and insulted. Women were both raped and
insulted. As to what happens in occupied Palestine, it is that the indigenous
population is robbed, killed and insulted on a daily basis by the settlers, the
army of occupation and the government of Israel.