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Melvin Turetzky		November 3, 2002

Your letter today, with its best intentions, is naive at best and dangerous at worst. Naive because it requests forbearance from the extreme political right who have never exhibited any attitude of compromise and who represent a small fraction of the spectrum of Jewish opinion. Better to concern oneself with the large center who sees criticism of Israel as often imbalanced and replete with a pernicious moral equivalency. Your editorial is potentially dangerous because it ignores the growing use of criticism of Israel as a cover for what is clearly anti-Semitism. What else would you call the academics call for divestment of any investments in Israel by their Universities? Since it is impossible to consider Arafat himself as anything but a vicious anti-Semite how would you classify his supporters in the EU governments.? What would you call the government of France for failing to classify so many of the attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions as 'hate crimes'? Or their fail! Sure to arrest and prosecute perpetrators? No Michael the real problem is not that most Jews see anti-Semitism in every criticism of Israel but that too many turn a blind eye to those instances when such criticism is being used to conceal festering anti- Semitism.
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