Alan Dershowitz vows to sue Martha's Vineyard pierogi stand over snub

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News on Aug 1, 2025

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Controversial attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is suing a Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendor for allegedly refusing to serve him pierogi because of his political views.

The polarizing defense attorney, whose famous clients include Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump, described the incident on Thursday’s episode of his podcast, “The Dershow with Alan Dershowitz,” saying he was turned away for political reasons after ordering half a dozen of the traditional Polish dumplings.

“Bigoted vendor at Martha’s Vineyard farmers market refused to sell to me because of my political views,” he posted on X earlier this week. “I’m suing.”

According to Dershowitz, he was waiting for a glass of the “best orange juice in the world” he had just ordered when he walked across the area to a pierogi vendor.

“So I went there and I said, ‘Oh, can I have six pierogi?’ And he said, ‘No,’” Dershowitz said.

When he asked the vendor if there weren’t any left, the answer surprised him.

“No, no, no. We have plenty of pierogi. I just won’t sell them to you,” the vendor reportedly said.

When pressed for an explanation, the vendor told Dershowitz he wouldn’t sell them to him because he did not approve of his politics, whom he had represented, and whom he supported, according to the controversial Harvard Law professor.

The “clear implication” was that the vendor opposed Dershowitz because he defended then-first-term President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial in 2020, and because of a T-shirt he had worn to the farmers market a week earlier.

“I was wearing a ‘Proud American Zionist’ shirt (in) red, white and blue — and I recall that he looked at it strangely,” Dershowitz said, later referring to the incident as “pure McCarthyism.”

A video shared on Instagram appears to show a police officer approaching Dershowitz during the incident before pulling him aside.

The person who shared the video said in the caption that they had stopped the polarizing lawyer from “harassing a vendor” who wouldn’t serve him pierogi.

“I made a statement to the police and they threatened to trespass him if he bothered any more vendors,” Instagram user bungee4 wrote. “Three refused him! The police took a witness statement from me. No one else wanted to do it because he sues everyone here. Total scum!”

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