JVP conference

With regard to “Jewish Voice for Peace ‘honored, proud’ to host confessed terrorist Odeh” (April 2), Jewish Voice for Peace is antisemitic. How else could one explain the group’s outrage against Israel while every one of Israel’s neighbors is blatantly apartheid in their treatment of women, gays, Christians and other infidels?

Israel is the only safe haven for Christians, Beduin, Baha’is and others fleeing persecution in the Middle East and North Africa. Israeli Arabs have more rights and freedom than any other Arabs.

Israel defended itself from Arab aggression in three wars of genocide against the Jews (1948, 1967 and 1973.) Had it lost any of these wars, its people would have been slaughtered.

Israel has no control over the human rights of Palestinians. Fatah controls the lives of 95% of West Bank Arabs. Hamas runs Gaza. Arabs have kept Palestinian refugees in fetid camps in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan since 1948, controlled by UNRWA and the Arab League. They are the cause of Palestinian suffering.

Israeli Arabs have the same rights and responsibilities as other Israelis. The make up 19% of medical school students. Forty percent of Israeli doctors and pharmacists are Arabs, as are 45% of the country’s nurses.

Racism is the disproportionate criticism of one party while giving its adversaries a pass. LEN BENNETT

Ottawa

The organization Jewish Voice For Peace is a good illustration of how Judeo-Christian morality is such a poor match against Islamic extremism.

Surely, these mixed-up Jewish leftists who proudly call themselves doves outdo many Christians when it comes to turning the other cheek and loving one’s enemies, some of whom have been invited to the group’s Chicago conference. Perhaps they are striving for sainthood, although their attitude toward their fellow Jews is strictly pre-Vatican II.

More broadly, we have prominent clergy throughout the West advocating for Muslim immigration or Palestinian rights, championing universal brotherhood, loving the stranger or loving one’s neighbor. Put that up against a militant ideology seeking world domination based on power and not ashamed to openly hate non-adherents to its faith.

It’s a miracle that Israel still hangs in there despite a significant liberal block and growing demographic of ultra-Orthodox, many of whom are unwilling to defend their own country.

When it comes to matters of jihad, forget about Moses or Jesus. Just listen to former Brooklyn Dodger’s manager Leo “The Lip” Durocher: Nice guys finish last.

DAVID KATCOFF Charleston, South Carolina