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Alan Dershowitz decries ‘bigoted vendor’ who denied him pierogi at Martha’s Vineyard farmers’ market
As Dershowitz tells it, he was waiting on a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice and riding the high of an early corn haul when his trip to the pierogi stand went south.
Alan Dershowitz demands satisfaction. Or, at least, a hot tray of pierogi.
The former lawyer for President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is back on Martha’s Vineyard and embroiled in another high-profile feud. This time around, his foe is a farmers’ market stand that purportedly refused to serve him the Polish dumplings in light of his political views.
“Bigoted vendor @ Martha’s Vineyard Farmer’s Market refused to sell to me for political reasons. I’m suing,” Dershowitz wrote on social media Wednesday. The controversial attorney elaborated on the incident in a livestream video shortly thereafter.
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As Dershowitz tells it, he was waiting on a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice and riding the high of an early corn haul when his trip to the pierogi stand went south. He’d ordered half a dozen, only to be turned away.
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“I said, ‘Oh, you’ve run out of pierogies? Too bad,’” Dershowitz recalled in his livestream.
“No, no, no, we have plenty of pierogi. I just won’t sell them to you,” he claims the vendor replied. “I won’t sell them to you because I don’t approve of your politics. I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.”
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The “clear implication,” Dershowitz alleges, is that the vendor took issue with Dershowitz’s work during Trump’s first Senate impeachment trial, as well as his outspoken Zionism. He further argued it was “pure McCarthyism” to deny an attorney service because of who they’ve represented.
Dershowitz also floated the idea of taking legal action against the farmers’ market to ensure it does not allow vendors who discriminate “on the basis of race, or religion, or gender, or politics.” Speaking to Newsweek, he clarified that he hopes resolve the matter without litigation.
The vendor, Good Pierogi, did not respond to a request for comment Thursday, though the business reshared an Instagram video of a police officer who appeared to be intervening with Dershowitz after he was turned away from the stand.
It’s not the first spat Dershowitz has had during his summertime retreats to Martha’s Vineyard. He infamously got into a heated confrontation with comedian Larry David on the island in 2021, a skirmish that began when the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” creator criticized Dershowitz for his Trump ties and culminated in Dershowitz removing his shirt to reveal a second T-shirt bearing a pro-Constitution message.
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The celebrity lawyer also bemoaned his chilly social reception on Martha’s Vineyard in 2018, alleging “partisan zealots” in the swanky summer spot had “shunned” him over his defense of Trump.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a place that is as intolerant as Martha’s Vineyard, particularly Chilmark, where I live and have lived for so many years,” Dershowitz added Wednesday. “The intolerance is absolutely remarkable.”
But despite his threat of possible legal action, Dershowitz reassured viewers he’s unbothered by his lack of pierogi.
“No pierogi for Alan, because he defended the wrong people and he is a Zionist and you don’t like his politics. So no pierogi tonight for Alan,” he said facetiously. “Well, I think I will survive.”
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