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Regarding “High Court lets Gallant deny Israel Prize to pro-BDS math professor” (April 9), Prof. Oded Goldreich has the right to his opinions and to express them, and science should trump politics. However, petitioning a foreign government to cease providing funds to an Israeli institution, even when situated in Ariel, is something else.

It reminds me of a similar instance reported in The Jerusalem Post (October 6, 2020), where the journal

Molecules refused to publish Dr. Mindy Levine’s paper because her residence was stated as “Ariel, Israel” – another example of “politics over science.”

I didn’t find any protest by Goldreich as to this event. We are talking about science, are we not? Another case of two weights, two measures.

DANIEL BRAUNSCHVIG

Jerusalem

As I read “Shas leader demands rotation as prime minister” (April 12) regarding Shas Party leader Arye Deri’s demand to be included in the rotation for prime minister, I couldn’t help but recall the “warning” in

Ethics of the Fathers: leadership.”

In other words, to describe Shas as the Sephardi haredi ultra-Ortodox party is the epitome of an oxymoron.

“You shall despise positions of

MICHAEL D. HIRSCH Tzur Yitzchak