YOU MAY NOT LIKE
PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT IF
YOU DON’T VOTE REPUBLICANS
INTO CONGRESS, THE
CONSEQUENCES WILL BE GRAVE.

Some of Trump’s Accomplishments:
1. Proven support for Israel.
2. Booming Economy.
3. Increased Manufacturing in U.S.A.
4. Repatriating Corporate Monies
from Overseas.
5. Ensuring Fair Trade.
6. Increased Border Security.
7. Crushing Isis.
8. Hostages Released from N. Korea.
9. Highest Employment for Blacks.
10. Highest Employment for Latinos.
11. Highest Employment for Women.
12. Lower Taxes, Higher Salaries.
13. Decreased Welfare Recipients.
14. Access to Trial Drugs.
15. Improved Veteran’s Health Benefits.

If Democrats win Congress, they will
obstruct progress for the next two years.
This isn’t what we want for America.
Support our President’s agenda.

VOTE REPUBLICANS FOR CONGRESS

Signed,
Concerned Citizens of Michigan

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group. One would think that experi-
enced journalists would dig into what
changed Gilchrist’s opinions of Israel
and Hamas; when did Gilchrist change
his opinions; and why didn’t he begin
tweeting about the change before he
was nominated? Isn’t that how “experi-
enced” journalists would operate?
If Whitmer failed to fully vet her
choice for such an important position,
as Truth Squad suggests, what does that
say about how she will make decisions
in the future? P.S. I am not a supporter
of Schuette or Whitmer for governor.

Sylvia Fleshman
Farmington Hills

Jewish Readers Do Care

Regarding your “Truth Squad” article
in the Sept. 20 edition, their conclusion
states: “While voters are motivated by
a host of issues — including perhaps
whether their political leaders are
antagonistic toward Israel — T.S. would
like to remind them … just how little
time candidates will spend dealing with
Middle East. Unless Hamas is putting
potholes … or ICE is causing … there
are more important issues…” Oh, really!
I would like to remind you that your
Jewish News is mainly being published
for Jews. We Jews should know and do
care about, candidates having anti-Isra-
el/pro-BDS/Hamas-accepting attitudes.
Candidates trying to “cleanse” their
previous stated feelings (like “tired of
people kissing Israel’s ass,” “Hamas
legitimately elected” and Whitmer
refusing to denounce BDS against
Israel) to get Jewish contributions and
Jewish votes shouldn’t be considered to
now not have these prejudiced attitudes.
They are important, along with “fix-
ing potholes and raising third-grade
reading scores,” and should not be dis-
counted to your readers.
We do care to know when candidates
have expressed beliefs that many of
us feel are really anti-Semitic beliefs
because they single out the Jewish State
for criticism.

Larry Freedman
Clawson

An Important Watchdog

AMCHA (Sept. 20, page 24) is an
enormously important watchdog for
everyone interested in “investigating,
documenting, educating about and
combating anti-Semitism at institutions
of higher education in America” as well
as the BDS movement on campus.
AMCHA recently organized the let-

ter from 58 organizations to University
of Michigan President Mark Schlissel
regarding the incident of the U-M
professor who, in compliance with the
academic boycott of Israel, refused to
write a letter of recommendation for a
student wanting to study in Israel.
Your attention to and support of
AMCHA are imperative to protect our
Jewish students and the Jewish people.

Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield

Response to Professor
Who Denied Student a
Recommendation Letter

I wrote to Dr. Cheney-Lippold at the
University of Michigan and told him I
was greatly disappointed to learn of his
rescinding a letter of recommendation
for a student only because she was
planning to attend Tel Aviv University,
an Israeli university and as such one
to which he was ideologically opposed
(“Israel Bias,” Sept. 20, page 18).
He backed up his decision with
numerous accusations of apartheid and
the like, none of which is supported
by reality. What he is doing, first and
foremost, is denying freedom of choice
from a student for his own personal
views.
Israel is a country like any other,
other than it is in the center of the most
violent area of the world. Though a
genuine democracy, Israel is far from
perfect, but his action is holding it to
a standard of near-perfection that no
nation has achieved.
He should think about similar let-
ters he has signed and look at their
human rights records — China, Russia,
any country in the Arab block and
almost all in the Muslim world, Turkey,
Thailand, Myanmar and numerous
African nations, etc.
Also compare Israel to the
Palestinian interests he claims to be
defending; is he aware of the far-reach-
ing peace proposals offered by Prime
Ministers Barak and Olmert that to
the Palestinians were not even worthy
of a response? Does he recall Hamas
fighters pushing P.A. people off roofs in
2005? As for right of return — would
he offer the same to Native Americans?
I ended my letter by saying, “So yes,
be critical of Israel but only by using
the same standards that you apply to
the rest of world.”

Leslie Goldstein
West Bloomfield