Alan Dershowitz Calls Desmond Tutu 'Anti-Semite' and 'Bigot' After His Death
As you know, Dershowitz tells it like it is. So he pulled no punches when asked about Bishop Tutu who had passed away recently. Dershowitz, an attorney and Harvard law professor, took a moment during an interview on Fox News to decry such tributes.
"I hope you don't mind if I do this," he began. "The world is mourning Bishop Tutu, who just died the other day. Can I remind the world that although he did some good things, a lot of good things on apartheid, the man was a rampant anti-Semite and bigot?" "People say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. Well, that's wrong… The bottom line is that at a time when people are reckoning with the careers, of people with mixed legacies, whether it be Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and others, we have to include in a reckoning of Tutu his evil, bigotry against Jews, which has existed for many, many, many years."
"He didn't talk about the Israel lobby, he talked about the Jewish lobby," Dershowitz said. "He minimized the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust. He said that getting killed in gas chambers was an easy death compared to apartheid. He said that Jews claimed a monopoly on the Holocaust. He demanded that Jews forgive the Nazis for killing them."