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Mary Lou Tringali, PhD's avatar

I love Alan Dershowitz. I have his books. I watch him on TV when I’m lucky enough to catch his appearances, and I always agree with everything he said. I admire his love of the law and his simple dumbed-down explanations so everyone can understand the nuances. Some of the most brilliant minds were from Jewish men and women. Why people continue to hate the Jewish nation has always escaped me. I pray Gov Shapiro will find peace and his family remain safe. This is the Easter season for Christians and the holy Passover week for Jews. There’s no room for hatred or derision. God bless all of God’s children.

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Morton Mindell's avatar

If you are a betting man, you can confidently bet that this act was perpetrated by the Left.

The far right white supremacists are a convenient scapegoat, but my money’s on the radical Left. That’s a bet that almost always pays off.

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Mietzsche's avatar

It's always blamed on the right until the facts come out. (Even the ADL does this - blaming Trump 2017 for multiple 'anti-Semitic acts' in the end caused by...Juan Thompson stalking his Jewish ex-; a disturbed Russian-Israeli teenager; two African-American youths...)

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Geoff Wexler's avatar

The assailant looks like the Anti-Eliyahu came through the door for the wine glass

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Hannahminnea's avatar

Funny!

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Dan's avatar

Ummm, I'm thinking it's from the antisemitic side. Antisemitism is not a political party.

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Csb's avatar

It looks like the answer to the questions is: yes, it was a hate crime.

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Mike Casey's avatar

What happened when we accused Saddam of cheating?

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John anon's avatar

It can only be a hate crime if he's NOT WHITE.

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greg starr's avatar

Everybody in D.C. is talking about the inexorable war between the USA and Iran, and how powerless individuals are to stop it. It doe no good to underscore that no American national interests are threatened by Iran. The tail is wagging the dog.

AIPAC, anoiting itself a the representative of 2% of the American population, demands an American military attack,, Pearl Harbor-style against Iran. The goal is more security for Israel, to eradicate any opposition to Israeli regional hegemony. Not well thought thru. What about Egypt and Turkey? And Dershowitz performs predictably as cheerleader. A starting point is that probably 30% of American Jews, often defined by generation or Reform/progressive adherence do not see either AIPAC or Dershowitz as their representative. But the central point is how significantly less than 2% of the American citizenry is allowed to control the American destiny absent an existential threat but with extreme danger to the other 98% plus of Americans.

AIPAC was once notably anti-Netanyahu, agreeing he was an extreme threat to Israeli democracy and stability. Dershowitz has been a Netanyahu acolyte starting with his Epstein years.. One can wonder about the implicit connection there, but that is all covered up, and you are not entitled to know. Now AIPAC is a tool of Netanyahu's manipulation of the American political class.. The Open Source website "Open Secrets" underscores the simple mechanism for control of the American elected public officials.: economic corruption AIPAC donates "re.election" funds to each compliant elected official, giving each a "minder" to make sure he or she never strays from AIPAC orders, In one period according to "Open Secrets" USD 5 million was donated to Nevada Senator Jackie Rosen. The large majority of Congressional Representatives and Senators are on the AIPAC dole. That is why Netanyahu gets 165 separate standing ovations during his speech in Congress, a week after being indicted for Genocide in Gaza. AIPAC has learned to disguise its bribes by encouraging individual moneybagged donors to personally donate when AIPAC tells them to. Dare an elected official stray, as several in the Squad did, AIPAC spends so much money on behalf of his opponent that a different elected official appears.

AIPAC and Dershowitz are unregistered foreign agents, thinking only of benefits for Israel. A more comprehensive analysis is needed. When American jets follow the example of Japanese Zeros,Iran will react just as America did i 1941. There are as many Iranians, who are nationalistic, as there were Americans in 1941. The first predictable reaction will be destruction of all oil wells anywhere nearby. This will bring about the most catastrophic oil crisis ever. It will affect Europe most. Their economies will flatline. Then "boots on the ground" will be needed. The war will be a war on Shia Islam.. Shias in Iraq and Lebanon, Yemen and Northeastern part of Saudi Arabia will be motivated as best they can to fight against the Americans, finding whatever targets are nearby. America lost the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and they had a tenth of Iran's population...

There needs to be a way to brake the influence of Israel Lobby money and its corruption in America. AIPAC determines the public discourse of conversation about the Mideast,who is appointed to formulate and implement American Mideast policy and the unending flow of weapons and money to kill non-Jewish civilians, Something like antitrust legislation needs to end this monopolization and peddling of political influence.

A starting point is enforcing the FARA Law and requiring AIPAC and Dershowitz to register as foreign agents.

BTW this happens to be Day 2546 of the Dershowitz- Epstein Pedo and Blackmail Gang cover-up. The Palm Beach Police investigation of Dershowitz remains sealed. Apparently the FBI office in SDNY mutinied against revealing the Dershowitz-Epstein investigation files. Amazing, is it not, that Dershowitz as leading cheerleader for War against Iran, was also intimately involved for well over a decade with Jeffrey Epstein, the megapedo, and Dershowitz was himself specifically accused of serial pedo rape, then he peddled influence to get immunity from Federal District Attorney from any charges of pedophilic crime,

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Jim Hoffmann's avatar

And this is day 2546 of your refusal to provide Alan with your personal contact information once again as requested. WHY?

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greg starr's avatar

Zionist terror organizations are well-known in Israel, especially now on the West Bank. We in America with the demise of Kach and the JDL have currently less violent though more intrusive Jewish terror organizations motivated by the same ideology. It is not known that they have resorted yet to extensive violence other than at the UCLA student tent encampment last summer. About 50 apparently Chabad-linked ruffians, mostly Israeli immigrants in their late twenties and early thirties,, many ex-IDF, were armed with baseball bats,steel bars and stakes. They attacked unarmed students after dark. The domestic Israeli terrorists were according to UCLA student investigators from the boxing and real estate milieu in LA, including a locally known Israeli professional boxer "Lion of Judah" who operated a boxing studio. The "Lion" claimed however that he never hit anyone and definitely did not break the right hand of a student pianist. Mrs. Jerry Seinfeld financed the attack but told LAPD that she had been lied to and that the attack was billed as being non-violent. she said no more money would be forthcoming.

One Zionist terror group is Canary Mission which specializes in doxing pro-Palestinian Americans and making list of their names . addresses. employment, families and photos. These are sent 1) to the Israeli government which then inter alia denies entry to people on the list and 2) to a specialist team that harasses landlord, employer and families. More than what Dershowitz did when he got a job offer to a Law Graduate rescinded in Chicago. This is Blacklisting,what was done to Jewish leftists, during the McCarthy period. Canary Mission, well aware of its illegalities, keeps secret its leadership and even mailing address. Al Jazeera did a professional undercover operation on Canary Mission a few years back, filming the leadership, and naming them together with the LA real estate mogul who financed the blacklisting operation. The documentary is available online and won a British documentary prize. But as with Dershowitz, there have been no indictments of anyone connected to Canary Mission. Yet.

Another Zionist terror group operating in the USA is Beter which encourages targeting of Israel critics and, again, making list facilitating the activities of shadowy others. It lacks the abundant financing given to Canary Mission.

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Bless America's avatar

We will know when the police does. Or did I miss something?

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Barry Black's avatar

Let me see. The governor is Jewish. He is a known liberal. He is pro- Israel and anti-Hamas and it was the first night of Passover. And his whole family was in the Governor’s Mansion. Seems like a perfect time for a few fire bombs!!

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