The Forum · 17 May 2002

CP-2002-025

Evidence is clear: Zionism is racism

Your Opinion

Ron Schmidt, letter to the editor

Transcribed from the clipping

“Anytime someone questions the actions of the state of Israel, one is likely to be called anti-Semitic. In other words, a ‘bigot.’ Black and white. For us or against us.… Why are so many Americans so adamantly justifying whatever Israel did in Jenin while Israel is so adamantly denying that whatever it did was unjustified?… The purpose of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is to colonize in order to create the Greater Israel. In so many ways it is reminiscent of the American West. Settlers would move on to Native American lands. In reprisal for this theft, the indigenous people would attack and often kill the settlers and their families. As Sitting Bull said, ‘The need to own land is like a sickness with the White Man.’ Zionism is racism. As ‘God’s Chosen People,’ the chosen ones are special with a predetermined destiny. We may say: ‘a manifest destiny.’”

Context added by this archive

A reader in Tolna, North Dakota, opens with the complaint the rest of this section traces and then reaches for the nearest local comparison he has. It runs between a letter about a county sheriff’s missing evidence and a letter about the war on terrorism that quotes Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Evidence is clear: Zionism is racism," The Forum, 17 May 2002. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2002-025. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2002-025

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