Thanks to all the wonderful moms and role models

I am grateful for all the wise, smart, strong, loving and crazy women in my life.

You all collectively modeled for me how best to be a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a friend. I witnessed your acts of kindness to those in need and your faith in the goodness of life.

You taught me, through example, how a woman can be a positive force in the lives of all the people around her by seeing each person as their mother sees them. With love and acceptance.

I stand on your shoulders now, with gratitude for the love you have given and the role models you have been to everyone around you. As a mother and grandmother, I aspire to pass on your wisdom and love to the next generation.

Thank you, Mom, and all of the other mother figures in my life.

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone who has given or received a mother’s love.

Anne Washmera, Alameda

Protest misinformed

I am disgusted about what is happening on U.S. college

campuses.

What started as a call for the end of the conflict in Gaza quickly morphed into an antiIsrael and, in many cases, an anti-Jewish uprising.

There is no talk of Hamas slaughtering innocent Jews on Oct. 7 or about the kidnapping of hundreds of Israeli hostages, many of whom have died.

I agree the war should end, but only if all the hostages are released and Hamas is disarmed.

Anything less would be a continuation of 20 years of Hamas launching missiles into Israel with the stated intent of wiping out all Jews.

Students chanting “from the river to the sea” and “intifada”

and calling for divesting from Israeli companies should learn history. Zionism exists because Jews have been discriminated against, scapegoated and killed by countries around the world for millennia.

Israel is surrounded by hostile enemies, funded by Iran and others, with the genocidal intent of wiping out Israel. Without U.S. support, they would surely succeed.

Students justified

The student protests at various colleges are not about antisemitism. The protests are about the slaughter of innocent civilians in Gaza.

American students are being beaten by the police, thrown to the ground and arrested because they dare to speak out about the killings of civilians, health personnel and humanitarian aid workers, and the blocking of food, water and fuel.

The students don’t like the slaughter, and they don’t like U.S. complicity in it.

The students are protesting the whole sordid affair.

Yes, the International Criminal Court is considering indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top military leaders. In response, 12 U.S. senators have written to the International Criminal Court and threatened to end U.S. support for the court if it targets Israel, thus interfering in its proceedings.

Listen to the students.

Arnold Gold/New Haven Register 2018 A sign celebrates Mother’s Day at Beachwood Florist in Milford, Conn. Mother’s Day is the busiest holiday for the florist.