Dear Editor, I appreciate how in your article “How To Speak About The Israel Lobby In A Non-Anti-Semitic Way” you thoughtfully attempt to navigate treacherous waters concerning discussion of the “Israel Lobby”. But I take issue with a couple of your assertions. One is your claim that “If there were no vigorously Zionist Christian right,…
This weekend, the internet combusted into an uproar after Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted “It’s All About The Benjamins Baby” with regards to American elected officials standing up for Israel. When Forward op-ed editor Batya Ungar-Sargon asked Omar who the money came from, Omar answered AIPAC. AIPAC! https://t.co/UdzaFUEfrh — Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) February 11, 2019 Ungar-Sargon…
Twice last week, The Forward published articles accusing American Jewish institutions of “betraying us” and “selling us out.” The authors of these articles accuse institutions — specifically the American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League — of abdicating their responsibility to the American Jewish community by supporting right-wing, racist leaders in Brazil, America, and Israel instead…
Dear Editor: As a Holocaust survivor, reading your article “Seeking To Help Israel, American Jewish Institutions Sold Us Out,” I can’t help but sense your political blindness. While I respect the right you have to your own opinion, I also feel that your vision of the reality in which Jewish people live today is quite…
Dear Editor: I am a New York attorney who practices in the area of pro-Israel litigation. I am writing in response to “BDS is a Trap for Democrats” by Lara Friedman. In her piece, Friedman argues that with legislation that allows states to penalize companies that boycott Israel, Republicans “are now working to undermine democratic…
In a recent op-ed in these pages, Yousef Munayyer argued that no state has an inherent right to exist. “States don’t exist because they have a ‘right’ to,” he wrote. “They exist because certain groups of people amassed enough political and material power to make territorial claims and establish governments, sometimes with the consent of…
Dear Editor, I am the New York attorney who was written up in the op-ed piece “The Surprising New Battleground” published on January 7, 2019. I am writing in response to that article. Do you know who Oliver Brown was? The name might not seem familiar to you, but in fact you probably know it…
Dear Editor, As a proud member of the search committee, I found Josh Nathan-Kazis’ Dec. 19 piece about the selection of Lonnie Nasatir as President-Elect of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to be a missed opportunity to highlight an exciting and pivotal moment in the Chicago Jewish community. The search process was…
Dear Editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon’s unsubstantiated comments about supporters of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) — the Palestinian civil society call to hold Israel accountable to basic principles of human rights and international law — deserve a response. While rightly saying that anti-BDS legislation should be opposed, much of her article recklessly slams BDS activists and…
Jew-haters don’t care how Jews define anti-Semitism. The Nazis didn’t care if you were an Orthodox Jew or an assimilated Jew or anything in between. This would seem to be a powerful argument against defining anti-Semitism based on how you define your Jewish identity. Yet, in a recent op-ed, the Forward’s Opinion Editor Batya Ungar-Sargon…
A few weeks ago I was contacted via a friend by the chair of Dulwich and West Norwood Constituency Labour Party, which represents the London Borough adjacent to the one in which I live. The individual asked me if I would run a training session for them on anti-Semitism. Aside from my extensive involvement in…
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