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What Is Wrong
With This Picture?
When one old Jewish basketball team
owner is secretly taped saying stupid
racist comments, the media lambastes
him, inciting outrage, helping to get him
banned for life from the NBA. Yet, when
over 1 billion people are revealed in an
ADL global survey as anti-Semitic while
"almost half of the world's adults have
never heard of the Holocaust:' most of
the media replies ... "yada, yada, yada."
One vs. 1 billion: What's wrong with
this picture? Every day, Jews around the
world pay a huge price for prejudicial
stupidity.
Young Jewish students in universities
are learning daily lessons in intolerance.
Islamic students across the country
continue to demonize Israel, demanding
that companies doing any business in
Israel and universities investing in these
companies are punished.
Yet, as Alan Dershowitz states in his
magnificent essay "Let's Have a Real
Apartheid Education Week" (The World
Post, 3/4/10), "focusing only on the
imperfections of the Middle East's sole
democracy is carefully designed to cover
up far more serious problems of real
apartheid in Arab and Muslim nations:'
Saudi Arabia, Hamas and other Arab
nations denigrate and persecute women,
gays, Christians and Jews. There is "no
dissent, no free speech, no freedom of
religion."
How does the one country in the
Middle East that allows freedom of dis-
sent, lifestyle, sexuality and religion
become the "wicked apartheid country?"
Ask yourself why. The answer: There
are 1 billion anti-Semites around the
world! Meanwhile, at American univer-
sities, Dershowitz writes, "democratic,
egalitarian Israel is a pariah, while sex-
ist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, terrorist
Hamas is a champion. There is some-
thing very wrong with this picture."

Arnie Goldman
Farmington Hills

ZOA Letters To U-M
Address Anti-Semitism
Kudos to the Zionist Organization of
America (ZOA) for alerting the Jewish
community to the recent anti-Semitism on
the University of Michigan campuses (in
full-page JAI ad, May 8, pages 10-11).
Unfortunately, war on Jews is not new
to U-M. Often it is disguised as anti-Israel,
but any thinking person can see it for what
it is: anti-Semitism. Yet, the administration
and regents hardly notice or respond.
One of my dear friends was an English
professor at U-M-Dearborn. She took
early retirement about 10 years ago
because she could no longer tolerate the
anti-Semitism rampant on the campus.
The burning question: Why have not
the other leading Jewish organizations
like the Anti-Defamation League, Jewish
Community Relations Council and others
like them put pressure on the university
to take rapid and strong action against
those responsible for the hate and insults?
ADL and JCRC get fired up if there is a
swastika or hate word painted on a wall,
but utter not a peep when a prestigious
university continually tolerates anti-
Israel and anti-Semitic behavior. What is
equally distressing to me is that Jewish
philanthropists continue to donate hun-
dreds of millions of dollars to the insti-
tution without ever calling the university
to task for tolerating such hate.

Yiddish Limerick

Ruth Vosko
Farmington

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Memorial Day

Haynt, darfn mir gedeynkn, * we must
recall
Di giboyrim ** who heeded the call.
They had their tayere leybn***
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Sylvia Fleshman
Farmington Hills

Campus Anti-Semitism
Must Be Stopped
I strongly object to the anti-Semitic
action taking place on the University of
Michigan campus and any other cam-
puses in the U.S.
This has to be stopped. Those who
contribute to this type of behavior need
to be punished.

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— Rachel Kapen

Film Raises Issues
About J Street Role
More than 250 people attended the
excellent film The J Street Challenge
May 6 at the Maple Theater in
Bloomfield Township.
They witnessed shocking evidence
that J Street lobbies against sanc-
tions and military action to stop Iran's
nuclear weapons program; how J Street
works closely with the NIAC (National
Iranian American Council) and brings
to its conferences and college cam-
puses leading NIAC pro-Iranian regime
speakers who condemn as "funda-
mentally racist" anyone who does not
"trust" the Iranian regime.
According to the film, JStreetPAC
raises millions of dollars to defeat
some of Israel's staunchest supporters
in Congress — damaging efforts to
mobilize support for halting Iran's
nuclear weapons. J Street persistently
demonizes and delegitimizes Israel on
college campuses and in its conferences.
J Street, and its campus arm (J Street
U), bring to college campuses the
leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and

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