Editorials ignored Jewish targets

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To the editor,

I have read a couple of your editorials about Charlie Hebdo where there was surprisingly no mention of the accompanying murder of Jews at the kosher supermarket (“We are all Charlie,” Jan. 15 and “Why we published some ‘Charlie Hebdo’ covers,” Jan. 29). The attack on the Jewish community was no fluke. Why is there such difficulty in associating  the assault on freedom of the press and anti-Semitism?

Pastor Niemoller, the brave priest who opposed the Nazis, pointed out the concomitant nature of attacks on freedoms and on the Jews. The Jews are the canary in the coal mine. “First they came for the Jews.” In Paris, the sequence was reversed. For Jihadis, Jews are the outstanding symbol of Western values.

You are to be commended for the courage to publish the cartoons to protest the murder of the journalists and cartoonists who were exercising their rights of freedom of speech. But it should be noted that the caricatures were reminiscent of those of the Nazis and contained anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian elements that demean and cause pain to entire peoples.

You express solidarity with “Je Suis Charlie,” but “Je Suis Juif” is missing.

Morton Rosoff

Charlie Hebdo, anti-Semitism, Morton Rosoff

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