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 faculty protests make Jews unsafe and would argue the alternative is true (“Being Jewish on campus amid Trump’s marketing campaign towards antisemitism: ‘large 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, medication 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 towards humanity in all places, 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 stay in Santa Barbara, the place I supported the UCSB encampment within the spring of final yr 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 wish to be related to Israel’s struggle crimes, as alleged by Amnesty Worldwide, Human Rights Watch and the Worldwide Court docket of Justice and Worldwide Felony Court docket, and respect the chance to take part within the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. Not in our identify!
Marcy Winograd, Santa Barbara
This author is a member of the California legislative staff for Jewish Voice for Peace.
