Jay Tcath: The phrase ‘Free Palestine’ is freeing no one, but it is killing some of us
Not all “Free Palestine” chanters understand it as a call to violence. Yet the phrase’s lack of specificity is a big part of its utility.
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Jay Tcath: What DePaul revealed about its pro-Palestinian encampment should be a wakeup call
DePaul University did a public service by publishing the complaints made against the anti-Israel tent encampment.
Jay Tcath: A cease-fire would reward Hamas and advance its brutal strategy
Imagine it's weeks after 9/11 in fall 2001. Grief, uncertainty and fear are palpable across our country. The nation's sense of security is shattered. Now imagine that Chicago's streets have...
The high cost of boycotting Israel
A recent Tribune editorial correctly applauds the Illinois legislature for having divested pension funds from companies doing business with Sudan (for its genocide in Darfur) or with Iran (for its...
Hate crime laws leave communities at risk
The American experience of a pluralistic democracy with unprecedented freedoms and opportunities makes the United States the world's most dynamic society. Many of our ancestors came here as they sought...
Fighting terrorism
Tom Durkin trivializes the jury's significant guilty verdicts against Muhammed Salah and Abdelhaleem Ashqar, while portraying them as passive victims. Durkin asserts that those verdicts were worth "virtually nothing ....
Maligning Israel
The three essays in the Tribune's June 29 Perspective section feature "Iraq: Who lied?" appropriately focus on the really big issues of weapons of mass destruction and the rebuilding of...
Outrageous cartoon
The Chicago Tribune's cartoon on the May 30 Editorial page is nothing to laugh about. It propagates odious anti-Semitic themes while distorting essential realities of the U.S.-Israel alliance and recent...