From the halls of Congress to Ivy League schools, even local city council meetings, accusations of antisemitism are flying.
The Herald’s recent editorial (“Lynnwood’s steps protect online public comment,” The Herald, Oct. 12) rightly decried anti-Semitism as well, but omitted any reference to what I believe is really being criticized: These criticisms are not aimed at Jews in general, they decry Zionism.
While I do not condone Hamas’ brutal assault on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, I can understand what drove them (and Fatah, Hezbollah and other Palestinian groups) in the past to rise up against Israeli oppression.
Ever since the Balfour declaration of 1917, the British Mandate of 1922, to the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, the native Palestinians have been oppressed, discriminated against, disowned and many thousands have been driven from their homeland by the Zionist Israeli government; very much like what Hitler did to native German Jews.
Even now, the Israeli prime minister is on record wanting to drive the Palestinians across the border into Egypt, denying them any right to their homeland which, after all, was called Palestine long before there was an Israel.
I applaud President Biden for continuing to insist on a “two state’ solution, but deplore his veto of a humanitarian ceasefire U.N. resolution.
Frank Baumann
Snohomish
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