Dear Playboy

June, 2011

No matter how "fed up" journalist Helen Thomas is with the Israeli-Palestinian con­flict (Playboy Interview, April), her angerdoesn't give her license to spread anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as the canard that Jews control the government. One can criticize Israel without resorting to stereotypes. Likewise, her demand that all Jews leave Israel and "go home" is an outrageous pronouncement and a pre­scription for national suicide. Thomas may be so delusional as to belie...