Fomenting violence

Regarding “Women break through in midterms” (November 9), there is nothing wrong with women breaking through in national politics, but it is entirely unfair and untrue for the writer to describe the Democratic Party women candidates as “intelligent representatives who – unlike the people surrounding the Trump White House and the radical Right – are not calling for violence, bigotry, or hatred.”

First, several intelligent female Republican representatives defeated failed Democratic candidates.

Second, it has not been females in the Trump White House, such as Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Sanders, who have been calling for violence, bigotry and hatred.

Rather, it has been the most prominent female members of the Democratic Party including Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Elizabeth Warren – to name but three.

Add to that list the Democratic-supporting Hollywood elite, including Madonna, who famously called for blowing up the White House.

But it is the “interesting female representatives” of her own party that give us all grave concern – People like Linda Sarsour and Rashida Tlaib, who hate Israel with a bigoted vengeance and whose rhetoric results in the very violence the writer professes to abhor. BARRY SHAW Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies Netanya