Alan Dershowitz, Israel and Cuba
In 2017 the Gatestone Institute published a rather banal travelogue by prominent Israeli apologist Alan Dershowitz concerning a recent visit to Cuba. Normally I would have just shrugged it off except for two passages, which I think are worth reproducing and commenting on.
Firstly Dershowitz writes:
‘I finally made it to Cuba -- nearly 60 years after first trying. It was Christmas Vacation during my senior year at Brooklyn College. Five members of Knight House – the poor folks version of a live at home fraternity at my commuter college –decided to visit Havana. Our motives were not entirely pure. Yes, we wanted to see the old City of Havana and its cultural gems. But we had also wanted to participate in its notorious nightlife. We were 20 years old and seeking post-adolescent adventures of the sort we couldn't experience back in Brooklyn. We never made it. When we got to the Miami airport for the half-hour, $50 flight, we were greeted by a State Department Travel advisory. It seems like another young man – just a dozen years older than we were – was also trying to get to Havana. He had been trying for several years and finally – on the very day we were departing Miami for Havana -- Fidel Castro and his revolutionary army were at the outskirts of the city.’ (1)
So basically the young Dershowitz – a hard core proponent of jewish supremacism and author of a book screeching hysterically about jews having sexual intercourse with non-jews – (2) was desperate to get to Cuba to have sexual intercourse with as many of the local women and prostitutes as he possibly could.
The irony as always is simply delicious.
Dershowitz continues:
‘On Friday night some of us attended a beautiful Shabbat service at the local Synagogue. There was no Rabbi, so the service was led by a group of teenage visitors from Argentina. The dining room table was set for 80 expected guests, who would feast on chicken and other delicacies not easily available to most locals. The woman who heads the Jewish Community proudly described a recent visit to the synagogue by Raul Castro, who she said had a warm spot in his heart for Jews, if not for Israel, with which Cuba has no formal relations.’ (3)
This is typical Dershowitz dis-ingenuousness when he discusses Cuban-Israeli relationships. He forgets to mention that the two countries have long engaged in surreptitious trade – thus breaking the US trade embargo of Cuba which Israel officially supported – and technological exchanges, especially in regards to agriculture. (4)
Dershowitz also pointedly ignores that the ‘authoritarian Cuban government’ was brought about and funded by a disproportionate and significant number of jews. (5) In addition to the fact that Fidel (and thus also Raul) believed himself to have jewish ancestry. (6)
Oh dear Alan... oh dear.
References
(1) https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10038/cuba-60-years-later
(2) Cf. Alan Dershowitz, 1997, ‘The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century’, 1st Edition, Touchstone: New York
(3) https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10038/cuba-60-years-later
(4) Allan Metz, 1993, ‘Cuban-Israeli Relations’, p. 117 in Jorge Perez-Lopez (Ed.), 1993, ‘Cuban Studies 23’, 1st Edition, University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, pp. 116-119; http://forward.com/news/world/355740/fidel-castro-on-israel-and-the-jews-its-complicated/
(5) See my article: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/the-jews-behind-fidel-castro-and
(6) Patrick Symmes, 2007, 'The Boys from Dolores: Fidel Castro and His Generation – From Revolution to Exile', 1st Edition, Robinson: London, p. 335; Metz, Op. Cit., p. 117; see my article for a detailed review of the evidence for this: https://karlradl14.substack.com/p/was-fidel-castro-jewish