Protest against appearance of Alan Dershowitz at Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee

Ironically, the presentation sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Sarasota-Manatee on February 25, 2015, on the topic of “Global Anti-Semitism” features Alan Dershowitz, who is currently generating intense anti-Semitism relative to various Florida lawsuits centered around his relationship with convicted serial child predator, Jeffrey Epstein, whom Dershowitz chose to represent and for whom Dershowitz zealously advocated for a notoriously-light sentence.

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Per said sentence, Epstein, identified by the FBI as having trafficked at least 40 minor girls in Florida and elsewhere for sexual purposes, served 13 months of an 18-month sentence in a jail, not prison, separated from the other inmates, with work-release 16 hours per day, six days per week.

… according to Dershowitz’s own public statements, Dershowitz was responsible for negotiating Epstein’s secret deal with the federal government which afforded protection not only to Epstein but to various of his associates as well … [including] Dershowitz [who is alleged] had knowledge of and participation in Epstein’s criminal conduct [1] against scores of minor children over the course of years.

In response to the filing of a pleading by the victims specifically identifying Dershowitz as a participant in criminal conduct with Epstein, Dershowitz “initiated a massive public media assault on the reputation and character of”[2] the two attorneys representing some of Epstein’s victims. Said attorneys are, in fact, a former United States federal judge and a former trial attorney at the Broward County State Attorney’s Office responsible for the prosecution of violent crimes.

In Vanity Fair (January 2005), Dershowitz is quoted, “I’m on my 20th book …. The only person outside of my immediate family that I send drafts to is Jeffrey,”[3] with whom Dershowitz traveled on Epstein’s private plane (according to flight logs from Epstein’s pilot) on several occasions and with whom Dershowitz was present “at Epstein’s house at times when underage females were there being molested by Epstein,”[4] according to the sworn testimony of Epstein’s housekeeper, Alfredo Rodriguez.

How has Alan Dershowitz generated a wave of anti-Semitism?

He has zealously defended a serial predator of children. He has gained a notoriously-light sentence for a serial predator, who sadly is Jewish. He has engendered lawsuits against him for defamation of characters of those attorneys representing the victims of sexual trafficking. He has traveled with and stayed with a fellow Jew who preyed upon scores of children for years on a daily basis. He defends Israel with the same intensity that he defends a sex trafficker of children, which discredits the State of Israel and the Jewish People.

Having worked for years with victims of childhood sexual abuse, I am painfully cognizant of the fact that the public detests Jewish predators and sometimes carries over that deep animosity to the Jewish People in general. At this time of swelling anti-Semitism, in particular, any acquiescence of Jewish organizations to the crimes of sexual trafficking of children is interpreted as proof of Jewish complicity in heinous crimes and/or Jewish control of this global industry.

I have worked on many cases of sexual exploitation of children, including dozens of Jewish minors, in which the sordid criminal facts involving Jewish predators were known to physicians, psychiatrists, clergymen, teachers, school principals, neighbors of the victims, reporters, hospital staff, and a host of other professionals before prosecutions were made or they received media attention, as in Penn State. Whenever Jews are involved as predators, the reputation and safety of the Jewish People are at stake.

Some are urging the Jewish Federation cancel the presentation by Alan Dershowitz, who, at the bare minimum, has zealously protected the rights of his long-time friend, a trafficker of children, at the expense of his victims, whose traumas will last forever.

Some believe Dershowitz cannot combat anti-Semitism when he himself has caused it to exacerbate, and he cannot defend Israel when he himself has refused to defend the rights of trafficked children. The contradictions to some are glaring and intolerable.

Nick Stuart · Top Commenter · SFSU, From Huffington Post, January 3, 2015:

“Surely one of the most sleazy characters in recent history, Dershowitz cannot be believed in anything he says. And Jeffery Epstein is a real slime as well.”

REFERENCES:

[1] Complaint, Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassell vs. Alan M. Dershowitz, Circuit Court for Broward County, Florida, January 6, 2015, pp. 3-4.
[2] Ibid, p. 3.
[3] Epstein vs. Edwards, Exhibit C, Undisputed Statement of Facts, April 8, 2011, p. 26.
[4] Ibid, p. 26.

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EDITORS NOTE: The featured image of Attorney and Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz is courtesy of CNSNews.com (AP File Photo).

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