Alan Dershowitz Claims the Queen Was an ‘Ignorant’ ‘Antisemitic’ ‘Bigot’

Alan Dershowitz made it clear he's no fan of the late Queen Elizabeth II.
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Alan Dershowitz has launched an astonishing attack on the late Queen Elizabeth II as an “antisemitic” figurehead whose family supported the Nazis.

The legal analyst and former Harvard Law professor called Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch “an ignorant woman and a person with a lot of personal bigotry.”

Dershowitz, a member of O.J. Simpson’s “Dream Team” whose past clients have also included Donald Trump, Mike Tyson, Patty Hearst, and Jeffrey Epstein, spoke out on his podcast, The Dershow.

“Queen Elizabeth was no great person,” he said during a show about a president’s pardoning power. “She too had a lot of bigotry and antisemitism.”

“In all of her years, she never once went to Israel,” he continued. “Her husband did, because her husband’s parents, or his mother at least, is buried there, and King Charles is very pro-Israel and very friendly with the Jewish community, but Elizabeth had nothing but contempt for Jews and nothing but contempt for Israel.”

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Dershowitz was referring to Prince Philip’s mother, Princess Alice of Greece, who is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. The princess, who later became a nun, was honored as a “righteous among nations” by Israel for saving members of a Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of Greece. Prince Philip traveled to Israel to visit her burial site in 1994.

Philip’s four sisters all married Germans, at least three of which became Nazis.

“The Windsor family has a horrible history, of course,” continued Dershowitz.“They were Germans and many of them supported the Nazis, one of them abdicated because he supported the Nazis,” he added, referring to King Edward VIII, Elizabeth’s uncle, who abdicated the British throne in 1936 over his relationship with American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Later that year, the couple toured Nazi Germany, fueling speculation that he sympathized with Adolf Hitler.

Dershowitz continued: “She was very, very overrated as a Queen. She lived a long time, and she lived a good life but she was an ignorant woman and a woman with a lot of personal bigotry.”

He said the Queen and now King Charles were “figureheads.”

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“Don’t give me stuff about Queen Elizabeth,” said Dershowitz. “I’m not a fan. I am a fan of King Charles, but not of Queen Elizabeth.”

The outburst comes just weeks after former Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke about his frosty relationship with the Queen, saying: “The relationship between us and Queen Elizabeth was a little bit difficult because she believed that every one of us was either a terrorist or a son of a terrorist.”

Speaking at a dinner commemorating 100 years of the Technion Institute of Technology, at London’s Royal Lancaster Hotel, he added: “She refused to accept any Israeli official into (Buckingham) Palace, apart from international occasions.”

He said that King Charles III had always been “so friendly.”