On Wednesday, distinguished Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz declared categorically that former President Barack Obama was an enemy of the Jewish people in his podcast.
The 44th president discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict at a recent Obama Foundation event in Chicago, stressing that both parties bore some degree of accountability.
A horrifying act of terrorism occurred on October 7 when militants from Hamas entered Israel through the Gaza Strip. Sadly, this horrible deed resulted in the kidnapping of over 200 people and the deaths of about 1,400 innocent Israelis.
As per the Health Ministry under Hamas control, the number of Gazan deaths since the start of the conflict has surpassed 9,000.
“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 continued, to a round of applause from the crowd.
“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 comes under heavy fire from Dershowitz for suggesting moral equivalency in his podcast.
“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,” remarked Dershowitz, a Jewish man who has spent decades standing up for Israel.
“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, issues a warning if Obama runs for office again 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.
Dershowitz concluded with reference to the outgoing president.
