Letters to the Editor

The Palestinian Authority Continues To Pay Terrorists

Dear Editor:

The Israeli Foreign Ministry has sharply criticized the Palestinian Authority (PA) following reports that the PA continues financial payouts to incarcerated terrorists and the families of slain terrorists. A recent Israel Foreign Ministry social media post declared “Palestinian Authority continues its blood-money policy.”

The Israeli government is correct for long condemning and publicizing this “pay-for-slay” system. This is a direct incentive for violence against Israeli families. The men paying these terrorists are the very ones Chris Van Hollen and others seem to think are interested in leading a peaceful Palestinian State. The PA leadership is not interested in peace.

This entrenched pro-terrorism stance is highly unlikely to change, particularly given current Palestinian societal trends. Jailed Fatah terrorist Marwan Barghouti—who is serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison for orchestrating deadly terror attacks during the so-called Second Intifada— received the highest number of votes in Fatah’s internal election earlier this month. Fatah is the dominant political faction within the Palestinian Authority and the PLO.

The persistent paying of Palestinian Arab terrorists and the political supremacy of a convicted terrorist leader like Barghouti reinforce a dangerous truth: the Palestinian political establishment remains deeply committed to honoring and rewarding violence.

Sincerely,
Moshe Phillips
National Chairman
Americans For A Safe Israel
New York, NY
www.afsi.org

Tomorrow’s Lawyers

Dear Editor:

The graduation ceremony at the City University of New York School of Law each spring is turning into an annual hate-Israel fest.

Students receiving their diplomas at this week’s commencement event marched on to the stage holding signs calling for “Free Palestine” (that is, Destroy Israel) and “Resistance” (that is, Kill Jews).

Many of them brandished the flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization, perpetrator of some of the most notorious massacres of Israelis (and more than a few Americans) of the past half-century. One of the graduates held a PLO flag so large that it covered him from chin to toe.

One sign read, “Israel is a Raggedy A— B——, Free Palestine.” Not too impressive for someone who just completed years of graduate-level study.

Several of the students held signs falsely accusing Israel of “genocide.”

There were, however, no signs protesting the actual genocide that both Democratic and Republican presidents have confirmed is being perpetrated by the government of China against its Muslim Uyghur minority.

Nor were there any signs about the ongoing massacres of blacks in Sudan by Arab militias, or the slaughter of black African migrants by Saudi Arabian border guards.

Displays of hypocritical performative radicalism are becoming an annual event at the CUNY law school.

In 2023, the commencement speaker, Fatima Mousa Mohammed, launched into a wild tirade against Israel and the New York City Police Department.

As a result, the CUNY Law School administration canceled student speakers at the 2024 commencement. That didn’t stop dozens of graduates from disrupting the ceremony, by holding up signs demanding “Free Them All From Rikers to Rafah.” (Meaning that all criminals and terrorists should be set free.)

“I’m glad we were able to make Palestine front and center as it should be,” Nusayba Hammad, a Palestinian American student, explained to reporters. “Every single thing we do is for that.”

“For that”—not for the purpose of studying the law and becoming good attorneys.

Last year, pro-Hamas students walked out of the commencement ceremony to hear a speech nearby by Ramzi Kassem, a radical anti-Israel attorney who has defended Al Qaeda terrorists.

The CUNY Law School boasts in its mission statement that it “is the only publicly funded law school in New York City.” Is the public aware of what its funds are being used for?

Sincerely,
Prof. Rafael Medoff

Israel Sends Lebanon a Warning

Dear Editor:

The third Israeli invasion of Lebanon lasted from July 12 to August 14, 2006. The key clause of the UN-brokered ceasefire, UNSC 1701, stipulated Hezbollah would retreat to north of the Litani River. They did not.

The UN did nothing. UNIFIL provided cover for them as Hezbollah tightened its occupation of Lebanon and fired thousands of rockets into Isreal following Hamas’s savagery of Oct. 7, 2023.

It is left to Israel to enforce international law as dictated by the United Nations. No one else cares about Lebanon’s Christian community.

Sincerely
Len Bennett, author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Deerfield Beach, Fl.

Mamdani’s Parade Boycott Sent the Wrong Message

Dear Editor:

Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s decision to boycott New York City’s annual Israel Day Parade was a profound mistake that sent an unfortunate and deeply divisive message to one of the city’s most important and historic communities.

For more than 60 years, New York City mayors of varying political ideologies have participated in the parade, recognizing that the event is about far more than politics. It is a celebration of Jewish identity, cultural heritage, and the enduring bonds between New York’s Jewish community and the State of Israel. At a time when antisemitic incidents continue to rise both in New York and around the world, the mayor’s absence spoke louder than any statement he could have issued.

No one expects elected officials to agree with every policy of a foreign government. However, leadership requires the ability to rise above political disagreements and stand with constituents during moments of significance. The Israel Day Parade has long been a unifying civic tradition attended by Democrats, Republicans, independents, religious leaders, and citizens from every background. By choosing not to attend, Mayor Mamdani broke with a tradition that has endured since 1964 and unnecessarily alienated many Jewish New Yorkers who already feel increasingly vulnerable.

The role of mayor is not merely to represent those who agree with him politically. It is to demonstrate solidarity with all communities that call New York home. On this occasion, Mayor Mamdani missed an important opportunity to do exactly that.

Sincerely,
Pinchas Aaronson
Brooklyn, NY

Who Incited the Vermont Vandal?

Dear Editor:

The words “Free Palestine” and “F— Israel” were painted on the windows of a wellness studio in Vermont last week, over two Israeli flags that the Jewish owner had placed there.

Mark Treinkman, a leader in Vermont’s Jewish community, pointed out that in recent months, synagogues in Vermont have received death threats, swastikas have been painted on school walls, and Jewish students have been the targets of antisemitic bullying.

Treinkman says the latest assault is “the predictable consequence of a political campaign in Vermont that demonizes Israel and pressures local communities to treat Jews and Zionists as equivalent to Nazis.” He noted that a local hate group, the Palestine Solidarity Coalition, has been promoting a campaign accusing Israel of apartheid.

“Apartheid Israel”—where the Supreme Court has an Arab member; where Arab citizens have served in the cabinet, as ambassadors, and even as Miss Israel; and where an Arab party recently was part of the governing coalition.

“Apartheid Israel”—the only country in the world that has airlifted tens of thousands of black Africans out of lands of famine and oppression, bringing them to freedom and safety.

But never mind those inconvenient facts!

“When anti-Zionist activists tell people that Jews with deep spiritual, cultural, and familial ties to Israel are ‘baby killers’ and ‘genocide supporters,’ it sends a dangerous signal that intimidation against them is understandable, deserved, or even justified,” Treinkman added.

But the bullies of the Palestine Solidarity Coalition are not the only Vermonters spreading such vicious slurs—nor are they the most influential.

That title belongs to the most powerful political leader in Vermont, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

— During his 2019 presidential campaign, Sanders’s team posted a video accusing Israel of imposing “apartheid-like conditions in Palestine.” Sanders has also repeatedly called Israel’s government “racist.”

— In 2024, Sanders claimed Israel was carrying out “ethnic cleansing.”

— In 2025, Sanders wrote: “Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

— In recent weeks, Sanders has accused Israel of “dragging” America into war.

Did Sen. Sanders’s extremist rhetoric helped incite last week’s vandalism in Vermont? Perhaps we’ll learn the answer to that question when the vandal is apprehended.

In the meantime, one thing is clear: the anti-Israel lies that Sanders continually spreads have helped create an atmosphere of hatred. And in such an atmosphere, there’s no telling what will happen next.

Sincerely
Prof. Rafael Medoff

Islamist Influence in Western Education

Dear Editor:

We have sold our souls for 30 pieces of silver.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia are oil-rich nations. The United States and Canada are too, so why have we allowed Arab royalty to invest billions of dollars subverting our major universities and indoctrinating our gullible young students?

Jews and Christians built the structures, but Islamists are populating the chairs of learning. It is now difficult for Jewish students and faculty to find a home in Columbia, Harvard, the University of Toronto or McGill.

Why would our brilliant, young PHD students want to study and do research where they are clearly not valued? Why would our major firms seek graduates with a limited capacity for creative thinking?

There are 1.5 billion Muslims in the world. Except for peace prizes, they have earned 4 Nobel Prizes. There are 1/10th as many Jews and they have 220. Tiny Israel, with a population of 10 million, has 12 prizes on its shelves.

I have one question. Who do you want training your future leaders?

Sincerely,
Len Bennett
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The Aliens Came…and Fled

Dear Editor:

The Feds are releasing UFO files and Alien sightings. Here is the real deal. Aliens first came during the Spanish Inquisition’s Catholic Church’s torture of Jews, left in disgust, told each other they’d return when humans began acting more civilized. Aliens returned again, this time during the Holocaust, only to be even more horrified, while they watched the world watch and refused refuge, participated in mass shootings and rounded up Jews into gas chambers. They vowed never to return.

In 2014, they returned, hoping to observe some improvement only to watch The Islamic State (ISIS), rape and behead. Post Israel’s 2014’s defensive Operation Protective Edge, they heard Europe’s Muslim crowds chant, “Jews to the gas; Hitler should have finished the job.” In France, Jewish institutions were placed under armed guard because of Islamic terrorist attacks.

But politics being politics, by only one vote from a Progressive Alien, they returned in 2023, just in time to witness Hamas’ burning Jewish families alive while they huddled together, gang raping Jewish women so violently their pelvis bones were broken, and mass shooting of unarmed young people gathered to listen to music.

They hovered while mainstream media and American universities turned “palestinian” terrorists into victims while ignoring the Jew hate speech, clearly exposed, on Palestinian Media Watch. Aliens had a hard time understanding how the world gangs up only on the tiny Jewish democracy of Israel, who offered fair peace deals over and over, while ignoring things like Islamic Taliban’s using females like cattle and Somalia’s and the worldwide butchery of female genital mutilation.

And so they left at warp speed, concluding there is little hope for humans who consistently need a bogeyman to blame for woes of their own making, and humans centuries of blaming the Jews for…everything.

The Aliens are gone for good but should they ever come back, I will be the first to volunteer to climb aboard. Perhaps they can take all the Jewish people with them. It can’t be any worse than to hang around here, only to witness the repeat of our own miserable history…yet again. But if I know humans, even with all the Jews gone, the world will still be blaming us from afar.

Sincerely,
Ginette Weiner

Jew Hatred is a Sign of a Rotting Society

Dear Editor:

A country that starts to have rampant Jew Hate is in a clear sign of a rotting society on its way towards collapse.

As the saying goes: “Jews are the Canary in the Coal Mine” — an early warning sign.

What starts with the Jews, doesn’t end with the Jews. It spreads, all people will be affected.

Those on the Left & the Right who refuse to learn from history or are too ignorant to even know history (like how the Holocaust came about) will repeat history’s darkest times.

But who is RESPONSIBLE for ALLOWING this Jew Hate to metastasize at such a fast clip??

1. First and foremost the DEMOCRAT PARTY that REFUSES to Enforce Criminal Laws at the City and State Level and TIES the HANDS of their Police Departments in places like NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles and many other cites–while LYING that these Jew Hating Terrorist Street Mobs are ONLY “exercising their Freedom Speech Rights to Protest”.
2. ALSO The TRUMP ADMINISTRATION at the FEDERAL LEVEL — which has been twiddling their thumbs and REFUSING to ENFORCE FEDERAL Laws to ARREST, CHARGE & INDICT PRO TERRORIST, Pro Hamas, Pro Hezbollah FRONT ORGANIZATIONS and Street Mobs for the crimes of:

Where the hell is TRUMP’s Department of Justice Attorney General and his FBI Director and ESPECIALLY his United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York — JAY CLAYTON?????

The TRUMP Administration should have ALREADY and since NOVEMBER 19th 2025 (when the first NYC Synagogue was attacked) sent Federal Officers into NYC to ARREST and CHARGE ALL these Terrorist Street Mob members (“Protestors”) on the spot in realtime as they rampage through NYC Streets.

SHAME on both the DEMOCRAT PARTY & The TRUMP Administration for allowing this CANCER to Metastasize.

Sincerely
Stuart Morrison
Queens, NY

Jerusalem: Just The Facts

Dear Editor:

Israelis hold parades every year to celebrate the 1967 reunification of Jerusalem after 16 years of illegal Jordanian occupation.

In 1948, after Britain ended its Mandate for Palestine, the UN suggested dividing Palestine into Jewish and Arab States, although under international law all of Palestine is the reconstituted Jewish homeland. Israel agreed to split its country into two states. Regional and local Arab armies rejected the peace plan and launched a war of genocide against Israel.

When a fighting ended in 1949, the areas under Egyptian and Jordanian control were ethnically cleansed of all Jews. The Arabs in Israeli areas became citizens of Israel.

During the Jordanian occupation, recognized only by Britain and Pakistan, no Jews were allowed access to their homes, businesses and holy sites on the wrong side of the armistice line. The UN was shamefully silent.

Today, all ethnicities control their special and holy places and Jerusalem is open to visitors and pilgrims from all over the world.

Is it any wonder Israelis celebrate Jerusalem Day?

Sincerely,
Len Bennett, author of ‘Unfinished Work’
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

FDR, Hitler & The Jews

Dear Editor:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt “embraced foreign allies to fight authoritarianism,” according to the recent op-ed by James Roosevelt Jr. and Henry Scott Wallace. Unfortunately, FDR did not “fight authoritarianism” until he was forced to—when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Nazi Germany declared war on the United States.

During the 1930s, President Roosevelt maintained normal trade and diplomatic relations with the Hitler regime. From 1933 until late 1938, he never criticized the Nazis’ persecution of German Jews. The Roosevelt administration publicly apologized to the Nazis when New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia criticized Hitler. The president allowed US diplomats to attend the mass Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg in 1937, and his administration helped the Nazis evade the American Jewish community’s boycott of German goods in the 1930s, by permitting the Nazis to deceptively label their goods with the city or province of origin, instead of “Made in Germany.” FDR also pressured Interior Secretary Harold Ickes to remove sentences critical of Hitler from speeches that Ickes planned to deliver in 1935 and 1938.

President Roosevelt also supported the infamous Munich agreement, which gave Hitler the strategic Sudetenland region of western Czechoslovakia, in exchange for empty peace promises. FDR never criticized the Nazi regime for remilitarizing the Rhineland region (1936), annexing Austria (1938), or gobbling up the city-state of Danzig (1939).

Even after the Germans launched World War II, in September 1939, FDR continued to maintain relations with Nazi Germany, and when the Germans installed their puppet Vichy regime in occupied France in 1940, Roosevelt maintained friendly relations with the Vichyites—even to the point of denouncing Charles de Gaulle’s Free French for liberating two Vichy-held islands near Newfoundland in 1941, and forcing refugee-rescuer Varian Fry to leave France because his activities annoyed the Germans and the Vichyites.

Sincerely
Rafael Medoff, Ph.D.
Director
The David S. Wyman Institute
for Holocaust Studies
Washington, D.C.

Never Again Means NOW!!

Dear Editor:

Enough with the rallies! Enough! Like I discussed on my show this week with Dov Hikind and Michael Rapaport it’s time to put the stupid bullhorns down and train a new generation of Jews to FIGHT back! When I was a kid the JDL would be kicking these Pro Hamas animals asses up and down the street! We need to get back to that! American Jews need to exhibit the toughness and resilience we see from our brave IDF soldiers in Israel! Yelling and screaming while they’re kicking our asses makes us look weak. And we are NOT weak! The NYC Mayor is getting exactly what he wants here. Nakba Day is all of a sudden a Remembrance Day here? Gross! Never Again means NOW! Let’s Go!

Sincerely
Sid Rosenberg
WABC Radio