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It is the Saul Alinski playbook, accuse your enemy of what you are doing… The atrocities that Hamas committed are staggeringly evil… No country should allow its citizens to have to endure that without protecting them.

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Totally agree. The accusations of genocide are inaccurate flawed and false.

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100% correct. However: the Hamas use of hospitals and schools as human shields for military operations and headquarters is also a war crime. Plenty of hard evidence for that.

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Israel getting a fair judgement in an International Court is like Trump getting a fair trial in New York !

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Really appreciate your clear and concise prose, professor. Wish you many more years with us. Happy new year.

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Go suck his pedo dick as well.

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Go listen to your conspiracy podcasts, where they judge people without proof, you Jew hating fascist.

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Fuck off satan. That's all you know: jew hater, fascists, antisemite... Your pathetic insults have lost any meaning. Your lies and genocidal actions are exposed everywhere. No one cares what pedophiles and pedo and genocide supporters have to say. You are the scum of the earth. Fuck off.

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Your side is losing the war, militarily and politically. That’s why you’re enraged and angry, like a petulant child throwing a tantrum. Go cry to your mommy you anonymous coward.

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Fuck off clown. How the fuck did you end up supporting genocide and a pedo rapist? Don't you ever wonder why? I guess not, as you are from your father the devil. A liar, a deceiver and a murderer. That describes perfectly your side. Now fuck off again pedo supporter.

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Your vocabulary is very poor and you keep repeating yourself as you are an uneducated bumpkin who fills the void in his cranium with hatred.

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2 to 1! Civ/combat Bat Stalingrad, Stal ordered no civi evacuation of Staling--argued fight better knowing would be protecting civilians . Ratio. Civ 40k vs 1.1 million!!!! Reversed, of course in the US terror bombing of Japan and Germany. -- not many soldiers to kill then!

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Mr. Dershowitz, you are being intentionally dishonest in your characterization of South Africa’s application for Israel’s violation of the Genocide Convention. Nowhere in the Application does South Africa state that the genocide has been going on for decades-- as you seem to imply by arguing that “Gaza has grown in population during the period in which genocide is charged”. Israel has been waging a genocidal war against the Palestinian people since the events of October 7th, 2023. The South African Application makes this clear on eight accounts: 1) killing Palestinians in Gaza, 2) causing serious mental and bodily harm to Palestinians in Gaza, 3) causing the forced evacuation and displacement of around 85% of Palestinians in Gaza, 4) causing widespread hunger, dehydration, and starvation to besieged Palestinians in Gaza, 5) failing to provide and restricting the provision of adequate shelter, clothes, hygiene or sanitation to Palestinians in Gaza, 6) filing to provide for or to ensure the provision for the medical needs of Palestinians in Gaza, 7) destroying Palestinian life in Gaza, and 8) imposing measures intended to prevent Palestinian births in Gaza. The Application also supplements this list with a collection of quotations demonstrating “evidence of Israeli State officials’ specific intent (dolus specialis) to commit and persist in committing genocidal acts or fail to prevent them”. You fail to address a single one of these multitudinous pieces of evidence in your response, except to hand-wave away the murder of innocent civilian lives, conjecturing that a large number of them might actually have been secretly members of Hamas. You instead resort to what-about-ism, accuse South Africa of hypocrisy, and absurdly argue that “accusing Israel of genocide is a form of Holocaust denial”. You fail to provide even a single quote from the Application, and instead resort to pure conjecture, unsourced accusations, and even weird imaginary scenarios of bank robbers and policemen. Shame on you Mr. Dershowitz. There is more than enough evidence that Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinian people before our very eyes, and you are explicitly ignoring such evidence. History will not look kindly on men like you.

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History will throw you away in the dustbin with Hitler, Pol Pot and Putin, you are evil. You are also extremely antisemitic and fraudulent. Firstly the entire list you set out is not "multitudinous evidence" but phony allegations which you have no evidence for, because it is complete bunk and legally erroneous. Why are you not charging that Hamas committed war crimes too numerous to mention in this reply, one being taking BABIES as hostages, and that Hamas who started this war through a completely illegal attack proclaimed through its officials that it will do Oct 7 again and again, namely a genocide of Jewish people, which also is proclaimed as the raison d'etre of Hamas in its charter. The clear perpetrator of genocide and continuous war crimes is Hamas and the fact that you do not acknowledge that and accuse Israel of such conduct when clearly acting in self defence demonstrates you deserve to be in jail for hate speech yourself. Move to Gaza you coward and help Hamas in its goal to exterminate Jews openly, don't sit like the lazy loser you are behind a keyboard in a democratic country you do not deserve to be living in. Have the courage of your convictions and stand behind your evil publicly you pathetic joke.

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First, name-calling won't get you anywhere; I suggest you drop the practice at first convenience. Calling me anti-semitic for being critical of the Israeli government's practices does nothing but expose your ignorance regarding my beliefs and opinions, and it makes you come off as emotionally unhinged and lacking in facts.

Second, it appears that you are unfamiliar with South Africa's Application that I referred to, as you seem to dismiss it out-of-hand as "phony allegations which you have no evidence for, because it is complete bunk and legally erroneous". Allow me to quote at some length these supposed "phony allegations":

"As of 8 December 2023, only one rescue vehicle was reportedly operational in the whole of Gaza, with survivors forced to try to dig for survivors with their bare hands. The level of

Israel’s killing is so extensive that bodies are being buried in mass graves, often unidentified" (32).

"There are no functioning hospitals in the North of Gaza, in particular, such that injured persons are reduced to 'waiting to die', unable to seek surgery or medical treatment beyond first aid, dying slow, agonising deaths from their injuries or from resultant infections" (35).

"Israel has now damaged or destroyed an estimated 355,000 Palestinian homes — amounting to 60 per cent of the entire housing stock in Gaza. The extent of the destruction in the North of Gaza, in particular, has rendered it largely unliveable, with the destruction in the South reaching a similar level" (39).

Most of the Palestinian people in Gaza are now starving, with levels of starvation rising daily [...] The World Health Organization has stated that '[a]n unprecedented 93% of the population in Gaza is facing crisis levels of hunger, with insufficient food and high levels of malnutrition'. They say that '[a]t least 1 in 4 households are facing ‘catastrophic conditions'" (41).

"By 16 November 2023, the food infrastructure in Gaza was already considered 'no longer functional' [...] Bread is scarce or non-existent, with food scarcity leading to significant price hikes, and the price of flour increasing by 65 per cent at one stage. Livestock that has not been killed is facing starvation, and crops are damaged or destroyed" (42).

"The World Food Programme has reported that there is only 1.5 to 1.8 litres of clean water available per person per day, for all uses (drinking, washing, food preparation, sanitation and hygiene). This is far below the ‘emergency threshold’ of 15 litres per day for 'war or famine-like conditions', or the ‘survival threshold’ of 3 litres per day" (43).

"Large swathes of Gaza are destroyed and uninhabitable" (46).

"Newborns in shelters are reportedly dying from avoidable causes due to the absence of adequate sanitation, food, water and medical care" (46).

"The healthcare infrastructure in the Gaza strip has been completely obliterated" (48).

"Israel has transformed Palestinian hospitals in Gaza from places of healing into 'death zone[s]', and scenes of 'bloodbath'" (48-49).

"Those hospitals which are still functioning are described as scenes from a 'horror movie'. The critical shortages of staff and supplies –– including anaesthetics, analgesics, medicine and disinfectants –– have led not only to otherwise unnecessary amputations of limbs, but also to amputations without anaesthesia, often undertaken by flashlight" (52).

"Shuja'iyya, a suburb of Gaza City, once home to approximately 110,000 Palestinians, appears to now be a vast wasteland, entirely flattened as far as the eye can see. Its shops, schools, vibrant market place, family homes, doctors clinics, historic streets and Ibn Uthman Mosque, and everything that once sustained Palestinian life there has been damaged or destroyed, along with so many of its people" (54).

"Israel has damaged or destroyed an estimated 318 Muslim and Christian religious sites,

demolishing the places where Palestinians have worshipped for generations" (56).

And all of this is but the extreme tip of the iceberg. What is happening in Gaza is among one of the worst humanitarian disasters in modern history. Israel is intentionally and indiscriminately bombing civilians and civilian objects, intentionally depriving them of necessary food, water, fuel, and electricity, and making intentional statements in the press celebrating and encouraging such methods. Under international law, as South Africa has concluded in their Application, this amounts to acts of genocide against the people of Palestine. To deny this, or to intentionally ignore this, as what Dershowitz is doing in this article, without any substantive comments that refute the collected facts and statements is not only intellectually absurd, but lazy and shameful.

Third, similar to Dershowitz, you seem to play this "whataboutism" game and deflect the blame entirely onto Hamas. Since October 7, Hamas has committed grave violations of international law amounting to numerous war crimes. Nobody (or no one respectable that I know) is refuting or denying this. But one war crime does not cancel out another. Israel cannot respond to the criminal act of October 7 by launching an even more criminal bombing and invasion campaign, coupled with an almost complete withholding of food, water, fuel, and electricity to a civilian population.

As a final note, you encourage me to "have the courage of your convictions and stand behind my evil publicly". Already done; I have attended numerous rallies, teach-ins, and events, I have donated to relief organizations, written and published articles, signed petitions, passed out flyers, and engaged in debates both online and in-person. I am not some internet lurker skulking in the shadows; I have been an active participant in the collective and international struggle to bring justice and freedom to people all around the world, but in this moment Palestine in particular, as it is currently facing genocide-level antagonisms. Call me all the names you want –– call me Hitler, even –– but they will not hold a candle to my convictions to make known the injustices of the world, and to assist in the fight against and overthrow of oppression, wherever that might be.

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Yes Hitler is apt given your subscription to Hamas Nazi ideology -at no time have you called for any "justice" or proceedings be brought against Hamas, their genocide can just go unpunished because it is against Jews and Jews have no right to self defence based on your antisemitic position. You seek no justice plainly, and I am not engaging in whataboutism, just exposing you are perpetrating a blood libel against Israel and the Jews. So I will sue you, please proudly stand behind your hate as you say you are prepared to do and give me your address for service and confirm your actual name. Also you do not mention when you will move to Gaza and help out there since you are so concerned. Please read the Globe and Mail article by Marcus Gee today which calls out and condemns this blood libel you feel free to participate in.

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I have stated clearly that Hamas has committed war crimes. Implicit in that statement is a desire for retribution, but since you seem to read me myopically and in bad faith, here it is explicitly: Hamas has committed clear violations of international law, and such war criminals must be held accountable in the International Criminal Court. I have held this position for years, and have no intention of discarding it. Now, let's apply equal standards to everyone, shall we? Israel has committed clear violations of international law, and such war criminals must be held accountable in the International Criminal Court. These violations amount to crimes against humanity and, as I have argued and the South African Application asserts, genocide. I am basing my position off of facts and their analysis under international law. I could care less about the ethnicity or nationality of such war criminals, Jew or Gentile alike. "Hamas Nazi ideology", "blood libel against the Jews", to me these are all rather meaningless buzzwords intended to evoke vivid emotional reactions and stoke fear and panic within one of the world's most historically oppressed ethnic groups (that being the Jewish people). Jews have suffered immensely for hundreds of years, including on October 7, and I wish for no less than the perpetrators of such misery (Hamas) to be brought to justice in the International Criminal Court. But such actions inflicted on the Jewish people must not be an excuse to bomb, invade, and murder a civilian population, nor to deprive them of food, water, fuel, and electricity. Israeli leaders, as well as powerful pro-Zionist networks across the globe, have used historically- and emotionally-charged language to justify the actions committed by Israel in Gaza. Such language does nothing but dilute the true horrors of Nazism and accusations of blood libel, weaponizing them to in order to excuse and perpetuate the forced displacement of millions, the killing of tens of thousands, and the starvation of tens of thousands more. Again, I reassert that I stand for justice, *on all sides*, which is more than what Dershowitz can say, as he valiantly defends a genocidal government by... refusing to engage in the evidence provided in the South African Application and slandering anyone who disagrees with him as "anti-semitic." Very brave, Dershowitz.

For the record, I tried seeking out the Globe and Mail article you suggested I read, but unfortunately it is behind a paywall. So, alas, I cannot comment on that regard.

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You clearly have no understanding of the laws of war, and the prosecution of anything at the ICC will never happen as you know. So let's test the veracity of your libellous claims against the Jews, which you also make as an acolyte of Norman Finkelstein - a corrupt loser whom I have no time for- give me your address for service and real name coward. Also you refuse to address why you will not moved away from behind your keyboard to Gaza if you are so concerned - so I will fill in the blank you are a disingenuous fraud and coward who spews antisemitic tropes.

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Alright, you’re still resorting to name-calling and insults, I understand now that there is no use in arguing anymore. And you are unfortunately probably right about outcome of the upcoming ICC court case, given the track record of its handling of the Rwandan genocide, Bosnian genocide, and many other unspeakable massacres. But one can hope and dream of a just and fair retribution. I think it’s very funny that you are accusing me of being a coward for refusing to provide my full legal name and address on a Substack comments thread; would you like my SSN too? And I apologize for not moving to an active war zone in order to proliferate my beliefs-- I think that doing all I can in my home country to pressure my leaders not to send billions of dollars in weapons and ammunition to Israel is an admirable and worthy goal. I will not be replying to this thread anymore, I wish you a good day, and I encourage you to read the entirety of the South African Application when you have the time. Peace.

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Those who are guilty are the SQUEAKIEST WHEEL. GUILTY!

How can you defend GENOCIDE, ETHNIC CLEANSING, “FOCUS ON DAMAGE NOT ACCURACY”, “THEY ARE HUMAN ANIMALS”?

You have become a genocidal Zionist maniac DISGRACE.

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You are a genocidal Hamas supporter who is antisemitic. Move to Gaza and help Hamas openly you coward.

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Figures, all you coward Zionists claim “antisemitism.” Anti Zionism is not antisemitism. I am not the one who has killed over 22,000 Palestinians in Gaza and can’t go to Gaza because the Zionist government of Israel doesn’t permit foreigners in. The world stands with Palestinians and Hamas. Israel is the one committing genocide not Hamas. Hopefully the Zionist Government of Israel will be charged with genocide in the International Court of Justice. No other nation has killed so many civilians in such a short time since WWII.

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Let me guess... you probably support the Nazi Kiev regime in Ukraine also. I don’t. The world stands with Russia.

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You are on your own planet suffering delusions. Get the help you need.

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⬆️ Like I said, are you STUPID?

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You know the answer is no, and you know you are a wimpy Nazi apologist coward who wants to live in hiding.

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^^^ What are you stupid???

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Why are you hiding wimpy coward?

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Have I called for the genocide of people? Have I called anyone names like “imbecile”, “...pathetic excuse for organic matter with vile hatred...”, or accused anyone of “...illegitimate and illegal conduct”? NO. You are the one with vile hatred of people. You are the one who probably calls the deaths of ~23,000 people in ~3 months “self defense. You are the one who probably supports the cutting off of electricity, food, water, and fuel supplies to Gaza. You are the one who probably supports Zionists. So give it up. You would lose.

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Yet you do not act with confidence that I will lose since you refuse to identify yourself and you are skulking from having a public proceeding against you. What do you have to hide?

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You would lose.

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Let test if you are right wimp give me your real name and address for service - come out into the daylight and stand behind your hate with pride.

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Sue me for what, my legal freedom of speech? Once again, Anti Zionism is not antisemitism.

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I already said for what but if you think I have no foundation for my suit then all the more you should give me your real name and address for service so we can find out in a court of law if you are right.

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You are speaking about yourself. With your attitude like the Zionist attitude it’s no wonder why there’s so much hatred. You will be judged on Judgement Day for your hatred of others and calling people “a pathetic excuse for organic matter...”. Once again Anti Zionism is not antisemitism. Blame the Zionists for hatred. Stop the current genocide, illegal occupation of Palestinian land as per United Nations Security Council resolutions and Zionists calling Palestinians “human animals” and maybe the hatred of Zionists would end.

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No nothing will end antisemitism because it is the world's choice for scapegoating and you are engaging in such illegitimate and illegal conduct. I will sue you for participating in such defamation and illegal hate speech so please provide me with your real full name and address for service, stop skulking behind a keyboard anonymously and let's test your smears in court.

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You are an imbecile. The world (with limited exceptions) stood with Nazis in WWII and stood with the pogroms against Jews and stood with the inquisitions and stood with the Romans who took the Jews forcibly as slaves out of Israel and stood with the Greeks who persecuted the Jews and so on since time immemorial, so the world standing with Hamas now only continues to demonstrate the world's disgusting illegal antisemitism and blood libel against the Jews. You are a pathetic excuse for organic matter with vile hatred as your animating principle. You will rot with the rest of them and you would be able to find a way to help Hamas in Gaza if you were not so cowardly.

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Facts! By the quick back-of-the-envelope calculations, I have easily counted north of 30,000 war crimes committed by Hamas (and other Gaza-based terror orgs).

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This article states the obvious, but the charge has to be reponded to with particulars again and again because antisemites eat this bunk up and foment illegitimate prosecutions with phony accusations against the only democracy in the region. What about turning the tables and counterclaiming against South Africa - the reports about that state are reprehensible and they have dirty hands see: https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-africa/ and https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/traveladvisories/south-africa-travel-advisory.html?_gl=1*199k91u*_gcl_au*MTE0MDQ0ODkyMi4xNzAyODI4MTU0 and https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/south-africa

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This analysis is totally correct. Israel as a democratic government, has bent over backwards to help totally hostile people brainwashed with a tyrannical world view by cowards and thieves called mullahs and khomeinis.

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No one takes you seriously anymore. Looks like you are nothing more than a pedo and a rapist. Shut the duck up.

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And what are you? An antisemitic coward. Move to Gaza now you pathetic loser and have the backbone to fight for your convictions.

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Jan 7·edited Jan 7

Fuck off pedo defender scum. Both you and your antisemitic bullshit. You are nothing more than the spawn of satan. A genocide rapist pedophile supporter piece of shit. The worst of the worst. A piece of crap that will burn in hell forever. Fuck off satan.

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Move to Gaza loser, fight for what you believe in coward.

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Fuck off clown.

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Repeating yourself with profanity does not make you win because you will always be a loser, nothing can change that.

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I have no doubt what you said is what you are and is your fate. You are projecting your own guilt. Thou doth protest too much.

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Jan 7·edited Jan 7

Brrr. Thats all you can do clown? What wrong choices did you take in life that you ended up defending genocide and a pedo rapist?

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None. My conscience is clear unlike yours. The guilt you have is undeniable.

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Alan Dershowitz is a monster and a savage animal. Jail for life!

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Alan Dershowitz likes to rape underage girls.

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ISRAEL HAS COMMITTED NO WAR CRIMES JUST LIKE YOU ARE NOT A CHILD RAPIST? lol

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Actually the accuser dropped the charges.

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Actually they haven't.

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Actually you are a lying loser.

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You are a winner. A winner in winning the contest for the most arduous pedo rapist supporter piece of crap.

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And you are the clear loser antisemite neanderthal you have always been.

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