Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz on his podcast Wednesday called former President Barack Obama an “enemy of the Jewish people.”
Last week, while speaking at an Obama Foundation event in Chicago, the 44th president addressed the Israel-Hamas war saying that both sides of the conflict harbored some semblance of responsibility.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists crossed into Israel from the Gaza Strip killing approximately 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping over 200 more.
The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry claims more than 9,000 Gazans have been killed since the war broke out.
“What Hamas did was horrific and there’s no justification for it,” Obama stated.
“And what is also true is that the occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is unbearable,” he added, which drew applause from the audience.
Obama: “What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable…
“You have to admit that all of us are complicit to some degree.” pic.twitter.com/FtAGFAexz1
— Yonah Lieberman 🔥 (@YonahLieberman) November 4, 2023
“If you want to solve the problem, you have to take in the whole truth, and you have to admit nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree,” Obama said.
Obama’s drawing of a moral equivalency between the two sides drew a sharp rebuke from Dershowitz on his “The Dershow” podcast on Wednesday.
“You can’t make those kinds of comparisons Barack Obama. I have to tell you what you did is just despicable. It’s beneath contempt,” said Dershowitz, who is Jewish and has been a strong defender of Israel for decades.
“Whatever respect I had for you, I have absolutely lost. Fortunately, so have many other Americans lost respect for you,” he added.
“I’m ashamed that I was your friend. I’m ashamed that I invited you to my birthday party. I’m ashamed that I accepted your invitation to the Oval Office. I’m ashamed that I allowed you to fool me into thinking that you actually supported Israel. You do not,” Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz, a lifelong Democrat, predicted his party would pay a heavy price for Obama’s comments should he decide to campaign for candidates in 2024.
“It was not a slip of the tongue. It was a very carefully contrived statement, trying to create a sense of equality and moral unclarity and moral comparison between something that can never be excused – murder, rape, beheadings – and something that is controversial politically and that you Barack Obama didn’t do very much to help the Palestinians get out of,” the professor said.
“You have been an enemy of justice, an enemy to Israel, and an enemy to the Jewish people, and an enemy to decency. And I’m embarrassed I ever thought as highly of you as I obviously did. I was fooled by you. I’ll never be fooled again,” Dershowitz concluded regarding the former president.
Appearing on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria” Friday, he further explained his anger towards Obama.
“First he said the occupation is unbearable. He just lied through his teeth. There is no occupation of Gaza,” Dershowitz told host Maria Bartiromo.
“If life is unbearable in Gaza, it is because Hamas has been in control. The kleptocracy. People have stolen billions of dollars that were intended for humanitarian aid and put it in their own personal bank accounts in Qatar,” he added.
Obama ‘lied through his teeth,’ there is no occupation of Gaza: Alan Dershowitz pic.twitter.com/E2M5yFfeB6
— Mornings with Maria (@MorningsMaria) November 10, 2023
Dershowitz further argued there is no Israeli occupation of the West Bank either, saying the Palestinian Authority’s capital of Ramallah is a beautiful city.
Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, which included removing over 9,000 Israeli citizens living in settlements in the region to the pre-1967 Six Day War boundary.
In 2006, Hamas won a majority in the parliamentary elections and the following year the terrorist group seized control Gaza from the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, which administers the semi-autonomous areas of the West Bank, The Associated Press reported.
As part of the Oslo Accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1994, Israeli forces had agreed to a framework for Palestinian self-government.
Violent flareups followed, causing Israel to go back into Gaza, before withdrawing again in 2005.
Dershowitz contended though Obama said “the attacks by Hamas are not justifiable. He made them justifiable, because if life really is unbearable, as it’s not, then you can do anything you want to make it bearable and what he did was contribute to the risks of not only Israelis, but Americans because it’s coming to a theater near you.”
“I think he always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well,” Dershowitz said of Obama. “And finally his true feelings have come out now that he’s no longer president.”
Obama has hated Americans since his Birth – – he’s hated WHITE Americans even more than Black, Red, Yellow or Brown Americans. Barry & Michelle only love themselves and the children (his nieces) carried by a family member GAVE to Barry & MICHAEL to present and raise as their own children. Can you imagine when those two children grow a backbone & spine and write a book themselves about “Growing up Obama in The White House” – – How their Father pretended he was Baptist, to win and then released he has Muslim or was he? Did the Family go to the Temple or Mosque? What happened to the Family Dog that they insisted on having but due to their Faith, it could not ride in Air Force One with them and had to be flown in a 2nd plane behind them for vacations? I think some of those STUNTS he just did – to see how far the American People would tolerate or let him – – The Millions we pissed away just to fly their DOG….. He laughed about it, no doubt. Barry & Michael, the Bisexual, Homosexual, Transgenders that got into The White House through Fraud & ACORN and beat Hillary Clinton while doing so – – – that should irritate her more than Trump does – – he STOLE the 2008 Election from her without a doubt….I smile, it was Karma and only 1/1000000th of what is owed to her, Bill and that ugly daughter of theirs
Welcome to the real world, Professor! Obama, has been anti-Israel for a long time. Now, Professor, go take a realistic look at your democrat party. Look at our economy, look at how lawlessness has grown, look at the racial divide under democrat administrations; especially under Obama. Welcome to reality.
The Democratic Party is trying their dead-level best to keep Donald out of the White House in 2024. They will lie, and try to anything they can to do so! They are the Leftist, Socialist, Marxist group of people trying to turn our precious USA into a Communist state!! GOD please help us not to let this happen!!
What do you expect, from or only Muslim born in Africa president.