Zionists assailed

Margate, Fla.: At Harvard shortly before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with great wisdom and prescience said: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews; you’re talking anti-Semitism” (“Can a college student back Israel?” op-ed,

March 29). Dr. King foresaw the ubiquitous anti-Semitism on college campuses that Issac De Castro correctly describes. While Mr. De Castro mentions faculty bias, it is in fact the virulent anti-Semitism of much of America’s college professors that is the heart of the problem. This reality is eloquently described in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Cary Nelson’s treatise, “Israel Denial: Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism, & The Faculty Campaign Against the Jewish State.” For a professor to fail to loudly and publicly denigrate Zionism is the death knell of his or her career. Unfortunately, many American college administrators today are demonstrating the same spinelessness in the face of anti-Semitic faculty as their German counterparts did in the 1930s. Richard Sherman