Litwer’s efforts are one-sided
The Oregon Daily Emerald ran a highly visible front page story (“An international education,” Jan. 16) on Lach Litwer’s mission to “educate” the University community about American-Israeli policy and “the importance of, not only Jewish students, but all students connecting with the state of Israel.”
And I’d like to respond to the messages in the story by asking Litwer, if, in addition to “educating” us about the stoic suffering of a kind, golden retriever-owning Israeli, will you also “educate” us about the many thousands of Palestinians who have been massacred by, or continue to suffer under, the Israeli army?
Will you educate us about the powerful and far-reaching influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, of which you are a member, in our own government? (Even the supposedly “dovish” Howard Dean boasts former AIPAC President Steven Grossman as one of his top advisors.)
Will you “educate” us as to why the state of Israel is so often at odds with such well-established humanitarian organizations as the United Nations, the International Red Cross and Amnesty International?
And will you also “educate” us as to why we, the vast majority of Americans who are not Jewish, should feel obliged to spend what meager good will America still receives from the global community, for the sake of the Zionist-Israeli vision for the Middle East?

Paul Griffes

senior

geography