Challenging Prager on campus anti-Semitism
Re “When young Jews major in anti-Semitism,” Current, Oct. 9
I am a proud and practicing Jew. I am also against governments that torture, discriminate and are founded on ethnic cleansing.
My anti-Zionism is not, as Dennis Prager would have it, “a form of anti-Semitism” based on the idea “that only one country in the world is unworthy of existence.”
I believe a number of governments throughout the world are illegitimate, including Sudan, Uzbekistan, Iran and Israel. Yet I remain hopeful. I believe in the words of Psalm 27, frequently heard in synagogues: “I believe I shall enjoy the Lord’s goodness in the land of the living.”
JULIE E. DINNERSTEIN
New York
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Prager misses the obvious point about the appearance of anti-Semitism in universities. Israel is run by a right-wing government supported by religious conservatives. University faculties are overwhelmingly left-wing and secular.
It’s a simple clash of values, not racism. If Israel had a leftist government, the “anti-Semitism” Prager worries about would largely disappear.
LISA EPSTEIN
Montreal
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