Author Archives: Joel J. Sprayregen

Dear Ms. True: It’s a pity the Reader was suckered, in your front-page plug (November 12) for a Palestinian documentary, into printing Nadia Oehlsen’s embarrassingly false account of Israel’s war of independence. Your reviewer’s crude bias is revealed by this whopper: “Most Arab violence at the time, including at least two of three massacres of […]

Dear Sir/Madam: Michael Miner’s usually excellent Hot Type column (July 14) continues the Reader’s obsession with the death sentence imposed on Mumia Abu-Jamal. The apparent premise of Mr. Abu-Jamal’s advocates is that “a former Black Panther and National Public Radio reporter,” who is also a “political activist,” has a First Amendment right to shoot to […]

To the editors: After reading your lengthy interview with Dr. Louise Cainkar (Reader, May 10) about postwar Iraq, I began to wonder whether the Arab peoples need to be saved from their best friends. Of course, reading about the suffering of Iraqi children is disturbing, even if the reportage is provided by a paid propagandist […]