ATHENS-It is fair to say that Richard Evers' rhetorical attack on "a group of local Jews who call themselves the Shalom Alliance" - whose plea for civility somehow offended him - did not age well.
Less than one day after tarring these Jews as "self-involved" fearmongers focused on their own "chose-ness," one of Mr. Evers' comrades in the "Free Palestine" movement used the same rhetoric as he, and a firearm, went to murder two innocent Jews on the streets of Washington, D.C.
As a self-proclaimed "confirmed non-believer born to very non-believing Jewish parents," Mr. Evers may not sense the fear that American Jews - in Vermont and beyond - who identify as believers, and who are identifiable as believers, carry with them every day.
But it is real. It is the result of unprecedented levels of actual hate crimes against Jews in the United States, and it is fomented by self-hating opinion pieces like the one penned by Mr. Evers.
ATHENS-A group of morally confused Brattleboro citizens have petitioned onto the March 4 Town Meeting ballot an article asking that Israel be tarred an "apartheid state." While claiming to oppose racism and discrimination, the article's sponsors are blind to the hypocrisy of their choosing to single out only the...