In writing this response, I want to focus specifically on The Daily Targum article titled, "Suspension of SJP, Rutgers' lack of commitment to academic freedom, necessity for divestment," published on January 25.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to 'Suspension of SJP, Rutgers' lack of commitment to academic freedom, necessity for divestment'

Witnessing the horrors committed in southern Israel invoked in me the worst memories from the pages of Jewish history. Hamas' heinous torture and slaughter of men, women and children in unimaginably cruel fashions could only be compared with the pogroms once endemic to Europe, which ultimately culminated in the Holocaust, thus destroying Europe as a center of Jewish life.

Joe Gindi

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Response to 'Suspension of SJP, Rutgers' lack of commitment to academic freedom, necessity for divestment'

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