Re: “A Jewish, Japanese-American Perspective on Gaza” [Dec. 11, Local News]:
Thanks for Naomi Ishisaka’s column referencing Maggie Tokuda-Corridor’s essay for the Japanese-American historical past preservation group Densho, titled “Justifying the Unjustifiable: Why Japanese People Should Stand with Palestine.”
Tokuda-Corridor’s perspective could be very invaluable and the analogy she attracts is so correct. Figuring out that clear and articulate voices like hers are being heard and amplified provides me hope.
As she says, “Grievous injustice can at all times be rationalized within the second, although it may hardly ever face up to the scrutiny of even a obscure try at rigorous hindsight.”
I hope that our congressional representatives, Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray, in addition to Consultant Adam Smith, are studying this column and calling for a ceasefire in Gaza now.
Marcia Stone, Seattle