I am a Jewish community leader based in San Francisco, California, directing a national nonprofit that focuses on advancing the heritage, history, and rights of nearly one million Jewish refugees from North Africa and the Middle East. Their descendants now comprise more than half of Israel’s Jewish population.

Your assertion that “anti-Zionism is rising as a response to what Israel is doing” in your recent New York Times opinion piece, This Is Why There Is No Liberal Joe Rogan, treats anti-Zionism as a new phenomenon—a political reaction, a byproduct of Israeli policies. But the one million former Jewish........

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