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After ignoring certain "technicalities" in the photo and placing words into Dershowitz's mouth, Larew then proceeds to completely distort the reference to Dr. King, in my recent letter to The Crimson. In the context of arguing against equating Zionism with racism, I wrote, "Let us not forget the wisdom of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an ardent supporter of the State of Israel, who warned that anti-Zionism often acts as a shield for anti-Semitism." This is crucially different from Larew's "paraphrase" that "criticism of Israel is sometimes a disguise for anti-Semitism...
...more recent decades, the Jordanian Jerusalem Times printed an open letter to Adolf Eichmann, asking him to find solace in the fact that his trial would "one day culminate in the liquidation of the remaining six million to avenge your blood...
...recent letter to The Crimson attacked a proposed conference on military ties between Israel and South Africa by citing Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who said that criticism of Israel is sometimes a disguise for anti-Semitism...
Leave aside for the moment the issue of how King, who was killed just as the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began, would have reacted to the oppression of the Palestinian people. What infuriates me is the letter's implication that anyone who criticizes the Jewish state must be motivated by hatred of Jews. Some other letters to The Crimson have even attacked Jewish critics of Israel as anti-Semites...
Tutu did, in fact, miss the first Board meeting in October. Just last month, he said in a letter that he would be unable to visit the United States at all this year, according to Whitehead...