Reader believes CAIR denies Israel’s right to exist

Dear Editor:

One aspect of David M. Litman’s  op-ed (“Troubling Social.Change: NYU, CAIR and excluding mainstream Jewish society“) has been clarified: CAIR, notwithstanding its “civil rights organization” flimsy trappings, has disclosed its antisemitic terroristic foundation.

Earlier this month Zahra Billoo’s boss, Nihad Awad , CAIR’s  co-founder and executive director, called Tel Aviv “occupied,” which means CAIR does not accept Israel’s right to exist. 

Gil Troy, the author of “The Zionist Ideas” and professor of history at McGill University, said that he was”deeply grateful” for Awad’s comments.

“Mr. Awad was being honest – unlike most of his comrades,” Troy said. “His brutal honesty – which essentially calls for a new anti-Jewish genocide 75 years after Auschwitz – exposes the lie that Palestinian extremists like him would be satisfied with any kind of compromise. It makes it clear that the hatred against Israel has to do with what Israel is – a Jewish democratic state – not what Israel does. And it should confront many Americans – including some deluded Jews – with the uncomfortable facts that this main obstacle to peace in the Middle East is not Israel’s presence in the territories, but Palestinian fanatics’ rejection of Israel’s presence – period.” 

Richard Sherman
Margate, Florida