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Dear Letter to the Editor:
The Washington Post categorically tweeted “The killings of two Israeli embassy staffers amplify confusion felt since the October 7, 2023 attacks about where Jews belong.”
(“For U.S. Jews, D.C. museum killings deepen resolve – and fear. The killings of two Israeli Embassy staffers amplify the confusion felt since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks about where Jews belong“. By Michelle Boorstein, Emily Wax-Thibodeaux, Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Rachel Hatzipanagos, May 23, 2025, Washington Post).
Notwithstanding a subsequent self-justifying deletion blaming “context,” the context is absolutely clear.
Historically with only a few exceptions only one group is ever concerned with where Jews belong: the antisemites who are committed to murder them.
Of course Hitler, Eichmann, Heydrich and Himmler were concerned with whether the Jews belonged in Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek or Bergen-Belsen.
Mohammad was concerned with the Jews belonging in Medina in 627 where he directed the decapitation of 600-900 of them. The Grand Mufti Amin al Husseini was concerned with the 70 Jews belonging in Hebron in August 1929 where he directed their beheading and castration. Yayha Sinwar was concerned with 1200 Jews belonging in southern Israel on 10/7/23 where he directed their murder and disembowelment and evisceration and rape … of Jewish girls and women.
So one must wonder why the Washington Post is suddenly so concerned with where Jews belong?…since journalistically such a query has its modern roots in the antisemitic ravings of Julius Streicher’s “Der Sturmer.”
Richard Sherman
Margate, Florida
