To the editor: Though I’ve no qualms calling out President Trump’s exploitation of antisemitism fees to silence dissent and defund training, I object to this text’s premise that the school protests make Jews unsafe and would argue the alternative is true (“Being Jewish on campus amid Trump’s campaign against antisemitism: ‘tremendous heartache,’” June 9).
Professional-Palestinian protests on campus improve Jewish folks’s security as a result of they problem the normalization of Israel’s bombardment and blockage of meals, water, drugs and gasoline on a ravenous and caged inhabitants in Gaza. As soon as we normalize and arm the slaughter and imposition of hunger on Gaza, we normalize crimes in opposition to humanity all over the place, leaving us all unsafe. Furthermore, Israel’s proclamation that it’s the state of the Jewish folks unfairly associates Jews worldwide with its insurance policies of apartheid and ethnic cleaning.
I reside in Santa Barbara, the place I supported the UCSB encampment within the spring of final 12 months and proceed to applaud college students of all denominations who say, “By no means once more means by no means once more for anybody.” Equating such protests and encampments with antisemitism does us all a disservice. I don’t need to be related to Israel’s struggle crimes, as alleged by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Worldwide Court docket of Justice and International Criminal Court, and respect the chance to take part within the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. Not in our title!
Marcy Winograd, Santa Barbara
This author is a member of the California legislative group for Jewish Voice for Peace.
