Letter: Hard Time Connecting the Dots

Dear editor:

I found Bruce Ticker’s article hard to understand. (“Column: Persecuting a Jewish Persecutor” boulderjewishnews.org 5/14/26) He writes of a Jewish judge who tried to convict some people of having caused significant damage to the president’s office at Stanford University. Ticker describes the accused as “friends of the Palestinians,” but doesn’t explain the connection between vandalism and supporting Palestinians. The judge in question (Jeffrey F. Rosen) is Jewish and was pulled off the case by a Superior Court Judge because Rosen highlighted the case on a campaign website which also mentioned his efforts to “fight antisemitism.”

I certainly have to admit that many people who consider themselves “pro-Palestinian” are anti-Israel and may even be Jew haters. Hamas’ charter proclaims that Israel will exist until Muslims destroy it and the Palestinian Authority incites the people living under its administration to “resist the Occupation” by killing Jews, honoring those who answer the call with lifelong pensions to murderers and their families.

https://emetonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pay4Slay_Fact-Sheet-FINAL.pdf

While I was thinking about this situation, another thought popped into my head. In today’s “Woke” society, the world is divided into the “oppressors” and the “oppressed.” Many who accept the “Woke” division claim that the “oppressed” never do anything wrong and the “oppressors” never do anything right. Would the mere claim that the accused were “pro-Palestinian” mean that a “Woke” judge would say they should not be held accountable for having caused extensive damage to property? Ticker’s article mentions that “the friends of the Palestinians” carried “an electric grinder, hammers, crowbars, and chisels” in an effort to get Stanford leaders to address their role in “enabling and profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

I really have no way of knowing if Stanford’s leaders had any connection to what was happening in Gaza. However, I do know that there was no genocide.

https://spencerguard.substack.com/p/im-a-war-scholar-there-is-no-genocide

I also know that Israel’s soldiers did their best to avoid civilian casualties while fighting in an area specifically designed by Hamas to put the people of Gaza in danger, and that Israel was supplying food and medicine to Gaza even as the people of Gaza cheered Hamas’ vow to inflict 1,000 October 7’s on Israelis and anyone foolish enough to work with Israelis or visit Israel.

Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests on Its Tunnels

Toby F. Block
Atlanta, GA