Dear Editors, The op-ed by Robert Kagan, “Israel and the decline of the liberal order” (September 15th) disparaged Israel as “illiberal” without basis in fact. Mr. Kagan claimed that in recent years Israel committed “a remarkable turnabout” by “turning away” from the “liberal world order.” His oft-repeated word “liberal” implicitly referred to human rights. In…
Dear Editors, I am disappointed that the State of California may soon mandate an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) for its high schools that incites hostility towards Israel. Why must a curriculum designed to study ethnicity in America mention a foreign country like Israel? Even if there is relevance to a discussion of Israel, there…
Dear Editors, Brent Sasley exhibited harsh anti-Israeli bias in his article, “Key takeaways from the Israeli election” (April 12th). He stigmatized all of Israel’s many conservative parties as “racist,” “far-right,” “hard line,” “hawkish,” “illiberal,” “extremist” or “less extremist.” In his mind, there was not a single tolerable feature among them. Then he dumped a false…
Dear Editor, The Jan. 30 news article “Israel seizes on annexation proposal” misconstrued an important point about Israel’s settlements in the West Bank. Two individuals quoted in the article properly said Israel may “apply Israeli law to the settlements.” But the reporter repeatedly mischaracterized that possibility as an “annexation.” When the 1922 British Mandate for Palestine reserved Palestine for the…
Dear Editors, I resented the bias in the AP article, “Leading human rights group calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state” (Jan. 12, 2021). Based on a mere opinion from one Israel-based pro-Palestinian group that Israel is an “apartheid state,” the AP reporter aggressively claimed to find a “shift in the debate” over Israel’s form of government. The…
Update, October 13: After this article was posted, Rolling Stone corrected the paragraph that initially read, “Lovato immediately received backlash from fans and critics of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, many of whom called her a Zionist for partaking in the trip and ignoring the significant political implications.” It now says only that, “Lovato immediately received backlash from…