Laurence Gardner (“Genocide canard is a smokescreen for antisemitism,” Aug. 16) objects to Troy Jackson’s reference to Israel’s extensive bombing and killing of the residents of Gaza as “genocide,” claiming that Jackson is antisemitic. But Gardner’s logic is inconsistent. He writes: “Jackson has every right to be an anti-Zionist … every right to protest Israeli policies.” This is precisely what Jackson was doing, and he has good company. The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory concluded, last September, that “Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces committed four of the five genocidal acts defined by...
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