Fairchild on Farrakhan

Fairchild suggests that the “more important” component in Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism is Israel’s “ties to South Africa.” But Farrakhan is on record attacking Jews and the Jewish religion, not the policies of Israel. Why can’t Fairchild tell the difference?

I wonder how he would respond to racist epithets against black people being justified on the basis of some African nation’s foreign policy. When a black man won’t simply condemn black anti-Semitism, he loses his claim not only to simply logic but to both moral and intellectual honesty.

DAVID MARGOLIS

Los Angeles