Alan Dershowitz, an amoral and impotent dwarf

Dershowitz behaves similarly to a whining toddler, unconstrained by facts, reason, or the broader consequences of his untruths in his quest for Mr. Atzmon’s silence.

(LONDON) - I had the good fortune to write arrangements for the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra this Fall for a benefit concert hosted by Manhattan’s Friends Shelter, the charitable arm of the E. 16th street Quaker Meeting House. The show featured the great British-Israeli saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and my arrangements of his tunes.

The afternoon of the concert a letter from Alan Dershowitz was delivered to Friends Seminary, a school connected to the Quaker Meeting House but unaffiliated with the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra, demanding that the concert be cancelled because of the band’s choice of guest soloist. In Mr. Dershowitz’s letter he threatened to create a scandal for the school in the New York Times branding them a harbor of anti-Semitism, owing to the recent publication of Mr. Atzmon’s new and very controversial book, The Wandering Who?.

Atzmon’s book is a philosophical exploration of Jewish identity politics and Israeli. The book has been positively reviewed by top academics in the United States and abroad. Mr. Dershowitz has been the book’s chief opponent and used the Quaker Meeting’s apolitical fundraiser as an opportunity to try and censor Mr. Atzmon. The school responded to Mr. Dershowitz’s letter honestly, stating that they are unaffiliated with the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra and that any complaints should be directed to the band.

Alan Dershowitz, in a spiteful, mean spirited, and misleading article from 1/13 in The Daily News, Gilad Atzmon, vile anti-Semite, makes new Friends, falsely conflates the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra and Manhattan’s prestigious Friends Seminary in an effort to churn controversy and scandal where none exists. Through innuendo and accusations of the vilest sort, Mr. Dershowitz has indiscriminately smeared Friends Seminary as part of a larger campaign to silence the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra’s guest saxophone soloist, Gilad Atzmon.

This attack on Friends is the result of the school’s refusal to kowtow to Mr. Dershowitz’s irrational demand that the Martin Luther King Jr. fundraiser concert be cancelled, an event the school had no claim to. Mr. Dershowitz never bothers to mention in his feculent and prolix piece that the school had nothing to do with the concert’s creation, though he insinuates many times the opposite is true. The concert was hosted by the Friends Shelter and independently produced by the Meeting House Jazz Orchestra as an entirely apolitical evening focused on raising money to feed and shelter those poor New Yorkers who need assistance.

The ethical implications of such a clumsy attack are obvious but must still be noted. Dershowitz behaves similarly to a whining toddler, unconstrained by facts, reason, or the broader consequences of his untruths in his quest for Mr. Atzmon’s silence. Dershowitz seems to be a man who has no ethical qualm smearing the innocent in an effort to suppress Gilad Atzmon’s voice in any way possible. Dershowitz’s attack should be seen as little more than a temper-tantrum thrown by an amoral and impotent dwarf.

One might ask why Mr. Dershowitz would trouble himself with a concert produced by an independent Jazz Orchestra that chose to feature a musician of international renown intended solely to raise money for New York’s poor. A fair question, indeed.

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Hussam January 31, 2012 5:13 am (Pacific time)

Indeed you, the editor here,is not only has a dwarf mindset but also a dork! Israel does not maim, murder or abuse human rights. In fact Arabs in Israel enjoy a quality of life that none enjoy in the Arab world. Israel hold human rights in the highest regards. Try criticizing the Arab world for a change who does exactly that, killing their own and others and not adhereing to human rights...look deep in the mirror, will you? Shame on you, Editor of evil!

Editor: Wow, what to do with people like you. Do you live in a bubble? Do you think we haven't seen the evidence? It's one thing for you guys to say "I'm Israeli and we kill everybody who gets in our way" - at least those Israelis are honest. But you, you are in a pit of denial and what... so ignorant that you believe it? Or are you one of those hasbara team players getting a little paycheck to spite your soul? Either way, God knows what is going on, the truth stands and there is ample evidence of everything I say and nothing you say. In fact I can list a set of links that will in just a few minutes, dispel every falsehood you offer. Come on back man, we can and should keep this alive, because each time one of you does this, you allow me a perfect opportunity to prove you wrong.

Hussam January 30, 2012 2:45 am (Pacific time)

The amoral and impotent dwarf here is the editor of this post. Disgusting!!!

Editor: I am not amoral, I have five sons and I stand six feet tall, 170 pounds, not a dwarf at all. If I thought you could be reasoned with I would try, sadly we have to wait for many of you to simply move on and we will teach your next generations about all of your lies. They will be ashamed, Israel does not have the right to murder and maim and abuse human beings.

Shmuli January 25, 2012 11:12 pm (Pacific time)

"Turnspeak "Dershowitz is also a confirmed plagiarist, proven beyond a shadow of a doubt by the great Norman Finkelstein.

Ferris January 24, 2012 10:09 pm (Pacific time)

Atzmon is trash and nothing less! The editor and his ilk here champion a vermin called Atzmon.

Editor: Gilad has more class in his little finger than you'll ever know in your lifetime, and I have news for you, 'vermin' don't rally for human rights, Zionist racists are the vermin.

Raul January 24, 2012 7:27 pm (Pacific time)

To the editor, you are far from publishing truth! all you publish is pure propaganda and lies!

Ferris January 23, 2012 2:02 pm (Pacific time)

Atzmon is the only one making sense, he was born Jewish, so it is clear that he understands a few things about this battle from a first-hand perspective. He fights lies, distortions and indeed Orwellian interpretations.

Raul January 23, 2012 12:16 pm (Pacific time)

you are all full of it...in this site, liars of the first kind and the true immoraals warts.. You aren't even good for ordinary Arabs/Muslims who truly seek freedom! to vomit you all herein..

Editor: We publish truth, perhaps your excuses for your inhumanity are the lies. You, in your lack of character, have left four comments using four names, you need to put down the crack pipe, that shit's bad for you.

LanceThruster January 17, 2012 2:32 pm (Pacific time)

Atzmon is a treasure...Dershowitz, less so.

M. Dennis Paul, Ph.D. January 17, 2012 1:20 pm (Pacific time)

Dershowitz, who long ago ceased to maintain any measure of media cache, desperately seeks attention wherever he can find or create an issue which will, in some manner, promote himself as the Uber-Jew.. Defender of All Things Zion. In this case, Dersh has exposed his pathetic writhing, once again, over Mr. Atmon's monumental book and his (Dersh's) inability to comprehend its valuable exploration. Incapable of proposing any rational argument or questions seeking further exploration or development of concepts exposed in Mr. Atmon's writing, Dersh resorts to deception, transparent as it is, and outright falsehoods which ultimately fail to gain the attention he seeks. In the end, although Dersh will no doubt continue this painful expose of his intellectual deficiencies, only those who blindly follow the exploits of Dersh and applaud their perceptions of his "righteous" endeavors will be deceived by him. Society, as a whole, long ago relegated Dersh to the cast of meaningless 5 second burpers on the evening news. At best, he merely reinforces his willingness to subvert law, ethics and Constitutional values to obtain yet one more glance of his faded existence on the TV or in print.

Ahmed January 17, 2012 9:22 am (Pacific time)

You are full of it, liars liars pants on fire! Dershowitz is right on the money. Atzmon is a despicalbe person and a liar of the first kind! The Jewish people are one of the most ancient people that exist on this planet!

Editor: Gilad is a champion among men, Derschowitz is a disgusting racist, we disapprove of his antics. Zionism is racism, pure and simple.

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