(JEWISH GROUP) Op-ed: Enough is enough for antisemitism at Tufts
I am a proud alumnus of Tufts University (LA’93) and an even prouder alumnus of the Daily, serving as executive business director and a sports columnist during my years on campus. I am also a member of the Tufts Daily Alumni Council.
I am also a proud American Jew, with friends and family who live in Israel, who can point to branches of my extended family that were extinguished by the genocidal horrors of the Holocaust.
Since my graduation from Tufts 32 years ago, these two identities have usually not been in conflict. However, since the brutal Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, it has become increasingly difficult for them to coexist.
Before discussing more recent events of the past 18 months, I first want to share two antisemitic incidents that involved the Daily over 30 years ago to show that the current tensions are hardly new.
My first experience with antisemitism in the Daily occurred during my junior year in 1992, when the Daily was one of many college publications around the country to receive ad requests from Bradley Smith, director of the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. Smith sent the Daily a paid advertisement titled “Falsus in Uno, Falsus in Omnibus: The ‘Human Soap’ Holocaust Myth.” After a lengthy and somewhat contentious internal debate, the Daily rejected the copy as a paid advertisement, choosing instead to cover the topic in a news article while running the text of the ad alongside the article.
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