EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Alan Dershowitz Says Martha’s Vineyard Vendor Refused To Sell Him Pierogies Over ‘Politics’

Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday provided the Daily Caller News Foundation with a video showing a Martha’s Vineyard farmer’s market vendor admitting he was refusing to sell him pierogies because of his “politics.”

Dershowitz said on an episode of “The Dershow” podcast Wednesday that he intends to sue the vendor of the pierogi stand for allegedly denying him service at the West Tisbury, Massachusetts, farmer’s market due to his politics and who he represented. Dershowitz represented President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial and criticized efforts by the Biden administration and others to pursue criminal cases against Trump. (RELATED: Alan Dershowitz Says He Can Help Team Trump Prove WSJ’s Epstein Story Was ‘Malice’)

The 13-second video Dershowitz provided to the DCNF shows the retailer confirming that he did not approve of Dershowitz’ political activities.

“Yeah, I don’t like your politics,” the vendor said as he made pierogies.

“I’ve been to the Vineyard regularly now for at least 40, 50 years,” Dershowitz said on his podcast. “And every Wednesday, for all of these years, I go to the farmer’s market. That’s where I bought this shirt, the farmer’s market. The shirt shows the farmer’s market in an old location.”

Dershowitz, who has represented numerous clients, including O.J. Simpson, during his decades-long career as an attorney, explained how he had enjoyed going to the farmer’s market during his visits to Martha’s Vineyard, and that he approached the Good Pierogi shop while waiting for another order to be prepared.

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The West Tisbury Farmer’s Market and Good Pierogi did not respond to multiple requests for comment from the DCNF.

“So I went there and I said, ‘Oh, can I have six pierogi?’ And he said, ‘No.’ I said, ‘Oh, you’ve run out of pierogi? Too bad,’” Dershowitz said on his podcast. “‘No, no, no. We have plenty of pierogi, I just won’t sell them to you.’ ‘What do you mean you won’t sell them to me?’ ‘I won’t sell them to you because I don’t approve of your politics. I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.’ I said, ‘What is it about my politics that you don’t?’ ‘I’m not going to tell you. I just don’t like your politics.’”

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The West Tisbury Police Department provided the DCNF with a statement about the incident.

“Reserve Officer, Nate Vieira, was radioed by Farmers Market manager, Ethan Valenti, for assistance at the pierogi tent. Also present were Lt. Gebo and Ofc. Stobie, the statement said. “The involved party, who was denied service, was Mr. Alan Dershowitz. He then expressed his displeasure with the operators of the pierogi tent, as they expressed their displeasure with his political views. Reserve Officer, Vieira, was able to assist in de-escalating the situation, and eventually, all parties involved went their separate ways.”

Dershowitz alleged that during a previous visit to the farmer’s market, he had worn a shirt proclaiming himself to be a “Proud American Zionist” and that the pierogi vendor noticed the shirt. Dershowitz compared the situation to the 2018 Supreme Court case involving Colorado baker Jack Phillips, who ran Masterpiece Cakeshop.

“Now remember the case in the Supreme Court… the courts made a distinction between selling a cake, which they couldn’t do with they are prohibited from discriminating against gay people in the selling of a cake just or any item. You can’t say I’m not to sell an item to a gay person or have a gay person be able to shop in my store,” Dershowitz said. “But there’s a difference between decorating the cake because that’s an artistic expression of the decorator’s First Amendment.”

“A pierogi is not a piece of art. There it was, sitting there and I said basically I’ll take these six. He said no you can’t have them. No matter how much I want to pay you can’t have them,” Dershowitz added.

Dershowitz said he “spoke very nicely” with the vendor while also asking other attendees at the market what they thought of the incident. (RELATED: ‘Sorry, Mr. President’: Alan Dershowitz Says One Of Trump’s Executive Actions May Be Halted In Court)

“At that point the police came and he had called them or somebody had called them and the two policemen came and they sided with him completely saying this was private property. It’s not private property, by the way, it’s the Ag Hall, which is quasi-public, paid for in part by taxpayers money,” Dershowitz said. “Then the policeman said he has a perfect right to decide who to serve. And I said, what if he refused to serve black people? Well, uh, the law advises him. He said not to, I have this on tape, I said, no, the law doesn’t advise him, the law makes it a crime not to serve black people or gay people.”

During his podcast, Dershowitz compared the climate on Martha’s Vineyard to “high school,” saying a friend of his told him that a group of people warned him that he would be cut out of social events on the island if he was seen talking with the noted attorney. Dershowitz added that another acquaintance told him that while he didn’t disagree with Dershowitz, it would be “social suicide” to invite Dershowitz to the acquaintance’s house.

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