Letters: Evading justice | Not antisemitic

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Rich Republicans
again evade justice

Two Republicans, Donald Trump and Ken Paxton, have demonstrated unequivocally that, in the United States, if you have enough money you can escape criminal prosecution and accountability for your actions.

Paxton, the attorney general from Texas, once again bought his way out of legal troubles without so much as a hand slap. Trump, by virtue of delays, incessant appeals and all manner of chicanery, has shown that a scofflaw can indeed prevail, escape prosecution and real accountability, deny any and all wrongdoing and still be the presidential candidate for millions of Americans.

Jon James
Pleasanton

A cry for a free home
is not anti-semitic

Re: “Universities battle to define antisemitism” (Page A6, March 26).

Noah Feldman cites the phrase “from the river to the sea, Palestine should be free” and questions whether it is antisemitic. I’d broaden it to “from the North Pole to the South Pole, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, Palestine should be free.”

Why should anyone be imprisoned or assassinated anywhere just for being born “the other”? We should all be free everywhere. Criminals should be locked up, but being born “the other” is not a crime.

Calls for freedom cannot be claimed to be antisemitic. Is the word “Israel” anti-Arab, anti-Christian or anti-Muslim?

Elizabeth Fisher
Pleasant Hill