Letter: Anti-Israel Jews aren’t part of the community | Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle

Letter: Anti-Israel Jews aren’t part of the community

In the May Chronicle, Leon Cohen wrote in his Editor’s Desk column that the positions of two anti-Israel Jews who spoke at an event at Marquette University that accused Israel of being an "apartheid" state and the talk by Caroline Glick about a one-state solution "encapsulated the polar opposite positions within our community."

I have no idea what "community" he is referring to.

The two anti-Israel Jews sat on a panel with Osama Abu Irshaid, the former editor of the newspaper for the Islamic Association of Palestine, a former part of the U.S. Hamas infrastructure and the predecessor of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to accuse Israel of being an apartheid state. Hamas is considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. government and the Hamas charter calls for the destruction of Israel.

At best, these anti-Israel "Jews" can be described as "useful idiots" and at worst as anti-Semites. They are not part of any Jewish community my friends and I belong to, and we think that Cohen and The Chronicle owe all Jews of Milwaukee an apology for putting them in the same "community" with these people.

Sorin Iancu

Mequon