Dear Editor: Your article Friday on the massive pro-divestment-from-Israel outcry at the recent UW investment hearings gives exactly the same amount of space to the (very few) people with the (very bad) anti-divestment arguments as to the (very many) people with the (very good) pro-divestment arguments.
During the South Africa divestment campaign, when a huge crowd favored divestment and only a few opposed it, would The Capital Times have given equal space to the tiny pro-apartheid minority? If not, why is The Capital Times, a supposedly left-leaning paper, shilling for the tiny pro-Israeli-apartheid minority who attended the hearings?….
Kevin Barrett, coordinator, Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, Madison