Alan Dershowitz on Tuba
“
Dershowitz is not only a remarkable liar and slanderer, but also an extreme opponent of elementary civil rights”
Noam Chomsky
The following is an analytical yet amusing glimpse into the deceitful
and psychological nature of Zionist propaganda as manifested by arch
Zionist Alan Dershowitz.
Dershowitz
wrote last week, “in a recent post, Atzmon said that he would be willing to play alongside David Duke. What a duet!”
This little insignificant anecdote brought a smile to my face because in
my text
I was actually positively considering joining a new healing musical
adventure along together with Alan Dershowitz on tuba and David Duke on
trumpet.
Here are my words;
“I really do not understand why Alan Dershowitz
believes himself to be morally superior to Duke. Dershowitz is a
Zionist Jewish supremacist, he is a world leading advocate of a racist
and expansionist ideology, namely Zionism. And yet, I wouldn’t say NO to
an invitation for a musical gathering along together with Dershowitz on
tuba and Duke playing the trumpet, just because I believe that music
brings people together.”
The text is plainly clear. There is no room for misinterpretation. It
was not a ‘duet’ which I was willing to join but actually a ‘trio’ that
would include Alan Dershowitz alongside David Duke. Dershowitz lied
again. Instead of just politely declining and admitting that he is ‘no
good’ on tuba, he followed once again his false-hearted tactics-first he
put words in my mouth and then interpreted the words he himself
invented. “But that's exactly where Atzmon belongs,” wrote Dershowitz -
“in the company of neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, homophobes,
misogynists, sexists and other bigots.”
If Dershowitz was an intellectual, which he isn’t or an artist which
he certainly isn’t, one could have argued that this kind of behaviour
suggests that the elder Zionist may live in a cute phantasmic
solipsistic universe. If Dershowitz wasn’t aware of his deceitful
actions, he could have been classified as a psychopath. But I actually,
tend to believe that there is a certain level of awareness behind
Dershowitz's actions. And the conclusion is, indeed, very concerning, we
are dealing with an inherently dishonest person, a ‘remarkable liar’, as
Noam Chomsky describes him along together many other intellectual and
humanists who have reached the same conclusion.
But why is he lying? Why is he doing it so often? Can he get
away with it? Clearly not anymore, yet he wouldn’t stop. At this stage
he cannot stop.
In The Wandering Who
I attempt to grasp the ideological, intellectual and emotional
apparatus at the core of Jewish identity politics. I try to analyse the
deceitful operative mode that is, unfortunately, symptomatic to Zionist
campaigners, Israeli Hasbara but also to very many anti Zionist Zionists
(AZZ). The book is basically an attempt to grasp the ideological
continuum between the Dershowitzes of this world and their collaborators
within the Palestinian solidarity movement and beyond.
It is pretty obvious that Dershowitz lies continuously because, like the Israeli Mossad, he hopes to win his Hasbara wars ‘by way of deception’.
Dershowitz lies compulsively because Zionism, which he advocates, is
inherently deceitful. Dershowitz lies consciously because Zionism, which
he supports enthusiastically, is also consciously impervious to ‘Truth,
Justice and Peace’- Zionism strives on a continual conflict, it is
based on a falsehood (the invention of the Jewish people and their
homecoming) and it is also a racially driven ethnic cleansing philosophy
fuelled by expansionism.
But there is obviously a deeper psychoanalytical layer here. When
Dershowitz claims to detest ‘bigots’ and ‘Nazis’, he may as well admit a
certain amount of self-loathing. In The Wandering Who, I elaborate on
the work of Austrian philosopher Otto Weininger who cleverly pointed out
that “we hate qualities (in others) to which we approximate”. If
Weininger is correct, we have a good reason to believe that Dershowitz
probably hates bigots and neo Nazis because he may recognise such
qualities in himself. In Freudian terms, he simply projects.
Such a reading, however, would assume a certain amount of guilt at
the core of Dershowitz’ psychology. But guilt as such must be driven by
an elementary amount of ethical awareness. Sadly enough, there is no
evidence of such awareness in Dershowitz’ conduct.
Weininger contended that his insight into self-loathing explains why
the most profound ‘anti Semites’ are very often Jews. They fight ‘the
Jew’ in themselves. I would add here that self-hatred may as well be the
highest possible form of Jewish universal ethical awareness. It is no surprise then that the greatest Jewish humanists (Jesus, Spinoza and Marx) were all self-haters.
Dershowitz could do with a tinge of self mockery or even a drop of
self-loathing. Such an approach could heal his soul and even amend his
reputation. Dershowitz wouldn’t even have to work too hard. The man can easily find in himself every and each possible aspect of Zionist ugliness.
The Passion of Dershowitz
In
recent years I have detected some fragility in Dershowitz conduct and
it leads me to believe that the elder Zionist doesn’t really feel great
about himself. Rather occasionally the man contradicts his own
statements.
On the one hand he would repeat himself insisting that
Atzmon is insignificant intellectually politically and even musically,
on the other hand he is doing little in his life but fighting Atzmon and
Atzmon’s endorsers. Last week Dershowitz invited himself to the
Manhattan Friends Seminary to lecture on the ‘dangers of the sort of
anti-Semitic hatred spewed by Atzmon.’
Surely, Atzmon must be important
enough then.
Contradictions are pretty revealing. They point to a cognitive
dissonance. It seems as if Dershowitz’ universe is shaken. He clearly
finds it hard to cope with it all both emotionally and intellectually.
I
have recently even detected an element of desperation in Dershowitz
behaviour. The Zionist fanatic is aware of himself becoming a laughable
cliché. Like a 12th grade student, he is now pushed to
furnish and validate his lies and spin campaigns with some pseudo
academic formality. Though he would quote out of context, consciously
cherry picking isolated anecdotes with a clear attempt to attribute a
misleading meaning to people and ideas, he would also provide a
meticulous bibliographical reference hoping that no one would ever
really check and review the texts he clearly distorted. Dershowitz is
desperate to convey an image of an appropriate academic formalism to
cover for the lack of integrity and content.
I have noticed that many Zionist as well as AZZ operators
are using the exact same tactics. Inherently dishonest people tend to
believe that formality can be grasped as intellectual integrity. I
don’t have a doubt that Dershowitz, Zionists and AZZ ‘got away’ with
this tactic for a while, however, once you buy yourself a reputation of a
‘remarkable liar’, the image of formality may even make you look more
foolish and mischievous than what you are for real.
Such an operation doesn’t reflect greatly on Dershowitz or any other
Hasbara operators. But it certainly exposes a volatile mental state. In
the case of Dershowitz what we see is a clear discrepancy between what
he claims or wishes to be and what he happens to be for real. This
discrepancy between the phantasy of ‘academicism’ or ‘formality’ and the
reality of being known as a ‘remarkable liar’ is at the heart of
Dershowitz’ and Zionist neurosis. But this neurosis is also symptomatic
to different forms of Jewish identity politics and even contemporary
Left thinking. If ‘unconsciousness is the discourse of the other’ as
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan suggests, then Dershowitz, AZZ and
the Left are tormented by the possibility of their real truth being
exposed.
For the Left it is its emerging detachment and
irrelevance reflected by the victorious rise of Islam as the leading and
probably only anti imperial liberating force. For the AZZ it is the the
growing awareness of its Jewish left disingenuous tribal role within
the solidarity movement. For Dershowitz it is the exhausting and
tormenting recognition that actually, it is him and his relentless
actions that gives Jews bad name.
I initially thought that Dershowitz would benefit from playing tuba
under my direct supervision. Music is the embodiment of truth and beauty
and it also has a clear therapeutic value. I thought that devotion to
aesthetics would elevate the suffering man and his spirit high above his
tribal loyalty. I also thought that Dershowitz would benefit from
sharing a musical platform with David Duke. It is not a secret that Duke
bought himself very many enemies along the years but as far as I am
aware, no one has ever called him a ‘remarkable Liar’. I thought that
after a while alongside Duke, Dershowitz may learn to state his
Judeo-centric truth in a clear and honest manner.
Being
a devoted humanist I do not have any plan to give up on brother
Dershowitz. He knows that he will join the band eventually. If it isn’t
the tuba, we can always provide him with a bagpipe. After all, the man
is full of hot air.
