Criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza not an attack on Judaism | READER COMMENTARY
It's not antisemitic to question Israel's leadership and their strategy of starving innocent civilians.
Let me repeat what I wrote months ago: Criticism of the government of Israel is not antisemitism (“Criticism of Israel not always an attack on Judaism,” Nov. 14).
The false claim of antisemitism is being used to vilify and silence those who criticize the hate-based actions of today’s Israeli government, actions which themselves violate Jewish principles. An example is the recent editorial cartoon by Dana Summers, which suggests that antisemitism is the basis for the campus protests against the war in Gaza (“College professors and the rise of antisemitism,” April 24).
Deliberately starving imprisoned people has nothing to do with crushing Hamas. Sadly, it probably ensures that Hamas will live on in all those young people who survive this terror. Opposing a war like this is fundamentally Jewish.
— Terry Fitzgerald, Baltimore
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