Author Archives: Evan J. Winer

Editor: Michael Miner (Hot Type, 11/16/01) is to be commended for bringing to light the dismay many members of the Jewish community feel over the Chicago Tribune’s treatment of Israel in its pages. One need go no further than a quote in Miner’s piece attributed to Tribune editorialist Storer Rowley to see the extent to […]

To the editors: It is ironic when a writer’s attempt to refute his critics merely proves what the critics have been saying all along. And Tom Johnson’s response (June 28) to Joel J. Sprayregen’s criticism did just that. Oddly, Sprayregen never criticized Johnson, who only interviewed Dr. Louise Cainkar [May 10], the subject of Sprayregen’s […]

To the editors: Robert McClory, author of the Reader article “Children of the Holocaust” [July 6], is either disingenuous or ignorant when he states that the term apologist is not politically loaded, as he did in his reply to a letter by Michael Kotzin (Aug. 31). Kotzin was correct to object to McClory’s description of […]

To the editors: Patricia Stoll, in an article regarding the recent confrontation at UIC during the celebration of Israel’s Independence Day, apparently has the simplistic view that the Palestinian Arab-Israeli conflict is merely a repeat of the civil rights movement in the sixties [“Demonstration,” May 6]. Stoll states that she is “for peace” and “for […]

To the editors: Andrea Sovan in a recent letter to the Reader [March 11] glibly stated that “Zionism is racism.” This defamatory statement has its origin in the now infamous UN Resolution 3379 which declared “Zionism as a form of racism.” This resolution, which was not supported by any Western democracy, sought to delegitimize Israel, […]