Lobster for Them, Table Scraps for Us

The worst thing about being a prophet is that you share God’s pain: the pain of being right and telling people the truth in order to help them, only to be rejected, slandered, and even murdered.

I am no prophet, but like many Christians, I have been telling the world the truth for a long time now, and while a few people have listened, most have thought of me as eccentric, and church leaders and good-do-bee Christians have persecuted me as though I were walking up and down the aisles of their churches selling pornographic magazines and crystal meth.

Now Alan Dershowitz, the famous Jewish law professor, has had enough, and he is starting to share the rejection. He started life as a mindless liberal, which is something even a brilliant person can do if his emotions and his desire for approval are more important to him than reason and justice. In his late old age, he started noticing that his fellow leftists were wrong about some things, and he pointed this out and even defended conservatives and Christians on occasion. Now, having observed the obvious anti-semitism that is growing on the globe like mildew, he has become a Republican, and he has taken the gloves off, criticizing not only his formerly-fellow leftists but also self-hating Jews.

What a brave man. Not.

Dershowitz spent most of his life getting rich and gaining public admiration through his left-wing politics and his connections. He was a Harvard professor because of DEI. They didn’t hire conservatives, so yes, it was DEI, regardless of whether he was smart; plenty of people are qualified to be Harvard law professors, and conservatives were passed over when he was hired. Liberal publishers paid him to write. Liberal journalists promoted him in interviews. Leftist elites made him part of their top-tier social upper crust.

He held onto these benefits as long as he could. Then when he started telling the truth and offending his benefactors, they rejected him like a mother sow pulling away the teat. He was shocked, which says something about how astute he really is.

Once he had been thoroughly disclaimed and disinherited and disinvited, at the age of 87, he found the courage to register as a Republican and add self-hating antisemitic Jews to the list of people he criticized. Now he says he feels like he’s in Berlin in 1932.

Big deal. If he had any courage, he would have come out of the closet in 1980. He wouldn’t have kicked against the pricks until he was nearly ready for the embalmer.

I’m glad he is coming out, and I applaud his decision, but it’s practically a deathbed conversion.

Brave Jews come out when they are young and no one likes or promotes them. They come out after they’re grown and they wake up, throwing away their social contacts and career booster seats without waiting to be rejected. They don’t wait until they’ve already beaten the actuarial tables.

Ben Shapiro is brave. His career as a Jewish conservative figure began when he was 17. Many Jews hate him. He isn’t a familiar face in the Martha’s Vineyard social scene. Nobody gave him tenure at an Ivy League university. The press hates him. He put his neck on the line from the beginning, unlike Dershowitz. But he’s more famous, richer, and more powerful, so there’s that.

All the people who are patting Dershowitz on the back should be ashamed of their gullibility. He’s just a spent old man who is afraid leftists will persecute him and destroy his lifeboat in the Middle East.

Want to impress me? Let’s see his kids cross the aisle. Any honor he gets for his 11th-hour conversion is about as valid as Marisa Tomei’s Oscar.