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To the editor: Some people still believe that President Joe Biden is incapable of leading: too old, can’t think straight, little energy. And Donald Trump is a better choice. I disagree. When I watched President Biden’s speech after his return from an exhausting trip to Israel I saw a ...
To the editor: As a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Kansas, I feel compelled to state that the recent statement by the KU GTA Coalition, or GTAC, condemning the existence of Israel does not represent my views. I can only speak for myself, though I suspect I am not alone in my ...
To the editor: Hamas has long waged an implacable campaign of hatred, violence and cruelty against everything remotely human and decent. I was horrified by their Oct. 7 atrocities against hundreds of defenseless civilians, including babies, but not surprised. Hamas has long personified the ...
To the editor: Let me congratulate Neill Esquibel-Kennedy and her colleagues in KU’s GTA union for undermining KU’s $2.5 billion fundraising campaign, while angering the state legislators. She states that Israel (the only Middle East democracy) practices apartheid, which is a policy of ...
To the editor: It is not bothsidesism to mention war crimes on both sides in the Middle East. Instead, it is a necessity for avoiding being misunderstood — as in a KU exchange reported by the Journal-World on Friday. When the graduate teaching assistants condemned Israel’s attack on ...
To the editor: The statement by the executive committee of the GTA’s union uses antisemitic tropes in its condemnation of Israel and in identifying only one committee member by faith or ethnicity. Furthermore their board action undermines organized labor by its authoritarianism. What ...