Georgia on my mind

Alan Dershowitz is a jurist of international renown and one of the most persuasive supporters and defenders of Israel. So it is with a sense of respect and esteem that I take strong issue with items in his November 20 column “Will a candidate who has expressed anti- Israel views determine who controls the Senate?”

After describing in detail what he labels as a blood libel against Israel by Reverend Raphael Warnock, the Democratic candidate for one of the two open senatorial seats from Georgia, he challenges Warnock to join him on a podcast to explore the issues.

Does Dershowitz really expect Warnock, whose biased views are long- held and on the public record for a significant number of years, to honestly retract his comments? Warnock is aware of the large Jewish voting population in the areas of Savanna and Atlanta so he will use the podcast as a platform provided by Dershowitz to mislead those potential voters.

Dershowitz further states that he would like to see a Warnock victory that would create a 50- 50 tie in the Senate capable of being broken by future Vice President Kamal Harris. Harris is on record as promising a largely Arab audience in Michigan that, among other things, she would return the PLO mission office to Washington and restore American aid to the PLO. She repeated this promise in an interview with the Dearborn- based Arab American News.

If the Democrats win the two Georgia seats, the Senate, House of Representatives and Presidency will be will be in the control of a party that has moved far to the Left and is the home of a number of outspoken and influential anti- Israel elements like the so- called Squad.

I don’t think that Dershowitz, a liberal Democrat and a person committed to the future of Israel and the Jewish people, would really appreciate that situation.

JAY SHAPIRO

Jerusalem