In 1983, my father and the Las Vegas Sun’s publisher, Hank Greenspun, wrote two columns taking the Review-Journal to task for publishing an antisemitic cartoon comparing Israeli Gen. Ariel Sharon to the infamous Klaus Barbie, the “Butcher of Lyon.”
In his columns, my father talked about freedom of speech and the responsibility of newspapers not to fall victim to the propagandists from the Middle East who were just starting out on what has been a decadeslong effort to poison American minds against Israel and the Jews. This past week, many of those hatemongers sat around a table in Egypt professing a desire for peace. It remains to be seen if their propaganda machines continue to misdirect young Americans toward hatred of the Jewish people and Israel as they march on college campuses in a m