Alan Dershowitz, a famed Harvard law professor and progressive in good standing, lashed out at activists and Democratic Party officials who are trying to make political hay out of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s Adolf Hitler gaffe.

Spicer created a firestorm at the daily briefing Tuesday when he said even Hitler never sunk so low as to use chemical weapons. He clearly meant the Nazi regime did not use the banned weapons on the battlefield and quickly backtracked when a reporter asked about Jews and others who died of poison gas in concentration camps.

“He’s a total phony. There’s no such thing. It’s a minor institution. It has no credibility within the Jewish community.”

Spicer later went on CNN with anchor Wolf Blitzer to apologize.

That wasn’t enough for critics, including Anne Frank Center Executive Director Steven Goldstein, who called it the “most evil slur upon a group of people we have ever heard from a White House press secretary” and called on President Donald Trump to fire him.

Dershowitz blasted Goldstein.

“He’s a total phony. There’s no such thing. It’s a minor institution,” he told CNN’s Don Lemon on Tuesday night. “It has no credibility within the Jewish community. He’s constantly trying to get headlines by overblowing everything. What happened here is the guy screwed up, and he apologized. He apologized from the heart. And I’m prepared to give him a pass on this.”

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But Dershowitz wasn’t finished dishing.

“I’ll tell you who I’m not prepared to give a pass on this — the Democratic National Committee that has immediately decided to politicize this and sent out immediate tweets saying, ‘We can’t tolerate anti-Semitism, even a whiff of anti-Semitism,'” he said. “This is the Democratic National Committee that has as its chairman Keith Ellison, who didn’t recognize …”

At that point, other members of Lemon’s panel started to interrupt.

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“Let me finish — who didn’t recognize the fact the he was working for an anti-Semite, [Nation of Islam leader Louis] Farrakhan,” he continued. “This is just hypocrisy, and I think we should not make politics out of this.”

Lemon suggested that Dershowitz was “emotional” about the issue.

“Let’s not let the Anne Frank people take advantage of this,” the professor responded. “Let’s not let the Democrats take advantage of this. Let’s understand that it was a mistake. He apologized. And let’s move on.

National Urban Radio White House correspondent April Ryan, who parlayed a confrontation with Spicer into a paid commentator gig at CNN, interjected. “This isn’t political. This is not political,” she said.

Dershowitz said it was fine for Democrats to criticize Spicer for making a mistake but added they should not politicize it.

“Why does it have to be political?” asked Ryan again, before launching into a political attack.

“I’m not bringing politics into it,” she said. “I’m talking about this statement happened during Passover, a holy time for a community that was the butt of an atrocity … It’s not about politics.”

Former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) started to respond but mistakenly called Ryan “Ana.” That brought scorn from Ana Navarro, a NeverTrump Republican strategist who also was on the panel.

“Not all colored girls are the same, Jack,” she said.

Kingston said Ryan might not be criticizing Spicer because she is a Democrat. Perhaps, Kingston said, she was criticizing him because she dislikes Trump.

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Ryan turned indignant.

“I never said I was a Democrat; I never said I was Republican. You don’t know my politics,” she said, wagging her finger.

Navarro called Ryan a “respected journalist.”

Ryan continued: “So, I’m a Democrat because I’m black?”

Ryan has played the “I’m just a neutral reporter” card before. Her fawning emails to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign — exposed by WikiLeaks last year — suggest otherwise.