In an Aug. 11 op-ed, “Maine Jewish group’s call for peace falls short,” the author attempts to explain why local Jews, who stubbornly refuse to believe libel against Israel, deserve antisemitic abuse. Loren Johnston quotes the International Association of Genocide Scholars, failing to point out that membership is open to anyone willing to pay $30. He writes that the number of victims is irrelevant to a ruling of genocide, which would make every war in history a genocide — and ignores the fact that armies bent on exterminating a people don’t pause to administer polio vaccines to children and supervise...