This Letter to the Editor, published March 3, is from the CAPA Climate Change Working Group’s own Carter Cleland.
The editorial about the puppet at the Chicago Cultural Center opens up a new, and dangerous, conflation (“Antisemitic fears in Chicago coalesce around a controversial puppet,” Feb. 19). The Tribune Editorial Board indicates that “blood on your hands” is an antisemitic trope. I could find no instance online in which that expression was particular to Jews or Judaism.
As an non-Jewish, American taxpayer, I do have the blood of 48,000 Palestinians on my hands because I helped pay for the bombs that killed them all and that maimed many, many more.
I would suggest that the many Jews and gentiles who oppose the war in Gaza, as well as the 23 aldermen who didn’t sign Ald. Debra Silverstein’s letter, might not like being labelled antisemitic.
— Carter Cleland, Chicago