To the editor: Highlighting Israel as a post-Holocaust creation is a technique wherein the enemies of the Jewish state falsely accuse the unique Jewish individuals of being “colonizers.” (“American faculty campuses have embraced the Palestinian trigger like by no means earlier than. The story started many years in the past,” December 7)
In reality, the land of Israel is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish individuals relationship again to about 1400 BCE. The Jews lived there till AD 70, after they have been conquered by the Roman Empire. The Arch of Titus in Rome reveals the menorah from the Jewish Holy Temple being carried away as loot.
In 1925, within the pamphlet “A Temporary Information to al-Haram al-Sharif, Jerusalem,” the Supreme Muslim Council acknowledged, referring to the Temple Mount: “The location is among the oldest on the planet… Its identification with the location of Solomon’s Temple is indeniable.”
Accusing the Jewish individuals of colonizing the land of Israel is like accusing the Sioux tribes of colonizing North and South Dakota.
Pamela Scheinman, Chicago
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To the editor: Russia is conducting an unlawful invasion of a sovereign nation and committing quite a few warfare crimes. But the scholars who oppose Israel will not be demonstrating in opposition to these precise warfare crimes.
China is committing genocide in opposition to its Muslim minority, the Uyghurs. There aren’t any mass demonstrations in opposition to that nation.
Syria has massacred its insurgent populations partially by killing them in unlawful chemical assaults. The place are the scholar protests in opposition to Syria?
It seems that these college students are usually not notably involved about unjust, unlawful wars or mass killings in most nations. They’re solely involved when a Jewish state defends itself in opposition to a Palestinian group that has attacked it.
Anybody smelling antisemitism?
Lawrence Fromm, San Clemente
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To the editor: It is hardly reassuring that Columbia College professor Rashid Khalidi thinks his college students’ “sloppy considering” concerning the Israeli-Palestinian battle “undermines the case.”
Maybe Khalidi ought to ask himself what he has executed or may do to advertise extra crucial considering and considerate reflection on the complicated topic. Maybe such an inquiry might undermine the very “trigger,” no matter it’s, based mostly on flawed historic evaluation and racist, anti-Jewish, or anti-Palestinian animus.
Carl Selkin, Pasadena
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To the editor: Some letters have just lately appeared which try to check Israel’s army response to that of the US throughout World Battle II, once we and our allies started bombing the cities of Germany, killing many harmless civilians within the course of.
Few would argue that the harmless ought to have been held answerable for the excesses of the German army forces.
Within the Gaza Strip we’re once more witnessing extreme power killing harmless individuals. The axiom that those that ignore the teachings of historical past are doomed to repeat previous errors is extremely related.
Joseph Tillotson, Redondo Seaside