In the Feb. 14 issue of The Chronicle Sol Koenigsberg wrote an opinion piece in which he compared Jewish refugees from the Nazis to the immigrant caravans presently storming our southern borders. Koenigsberg severely criticizes President Trump, using expressions such as “warnings have no merit,” “delusional” and “wall of hostility.” He accuses President Trump of “demonizing Nancy Pelosi.”
In contrast, Isi Leibler wrote an opinion in the International Jerusalem Post, Feb. 8-14, page 21, which deserves to be compared to Koenigsberg’s negative remarks about our president. Leibler writes that President Donald Trump has thus far been a very good friend to Israel. He noted that the Democratic Party’s radical and anti-Israel wing is growing and is already threatening the favorable congressional bipartisan concessions toward Israel that have prevailed.
Leibler observes that the Jewish community is utterly disunited and detracting in its loyalty to the Jewish state. “Non-Jewish Jews” have emerged, who regard “social justice and their Democratic affiliation as forums factoring in their Jewish identity”… yet Trump unquestionably is the most positive president toward Israel.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has appointed Ilhan Omar, a bitterly anti-Israel Muslim, to the powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Democratic Party is being rapidly radicalized.
Thus, Jewish identity is presently horribly being submerged by excessive progressivism.
Mr. Koenigsberg, Lady Liberty is by no means synonymous with the radically left-leaning Democratic Party.
David S. Jacobs, M.D.
Overland Park, Kansas
