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...guess Kinsley fears that literal-minded Jewish leaders would ban pork and Catholics would outlaw birth control. And Muslims? Presumably he thinks they would promote terrorism, of course. Fortunately, the majority of Americans are clever enough to see beyond stereotypes. Great leaders successfully balance morality, democracy and freedom of choice regardless of religious faith. J.P. Wirig, Walnut Creek, California...
...interested to learn from from an op-ed by Professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, "Israel and Censorship at Harvard" (Sept. 14), something I had never discovered in my life’s experience: that my membership in the "gravely traumatized" Jewish people affects my ability to participate in "critical" discourse. Enough critical ability has survived the trauma, however, for me to realize that Matory is wrong about the nature of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism...
Matory defines anti-Zionism as "the rejection of the racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Zionism’s supposedly racial nature would surely surprise the German and Yemenite Jews who built the Jewish state together. His claims that Zionism is race-based and "violates Palestinian rights" are strikingly similar to the biased screed that "Zionism is racism...
...author later argues that calling anti-Zionism "anti-Semitism" is a dangerously false parallel that creates anti-Semitism. By Matory’s logic, anti-Zionists will be "required" to hate Jews if "Israel’s defenders convince the world that...Jewish people are uniform in their opinions about Israel and its policies." Of course, no such effort among "Israel’s defenders" exists, and, if it did, there would surely be plenty of Jews—self-professed anti-Zionists among them—to undermine it. More important, to believe something as absurd as the idea...
...consider the substance of his critique. Matory claims that Israel is based on a "racially-based claim that Jewish people have a collective right to Palestine." Anyone who describes Israel—which is a kaleidoscope of races—in these terms is clearly uninformed. The collective Jewish right to self-determination is not racially based and does not exclude Arab self-determination in the same land...