Letter to the editor: Writer’s views miss the mark

I have read Joanna Colwell’s editorials over the last few months and believe that her anti-Zionist beliefs cloud her view of what’s happening in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Her views on Israel being an “apartheid” state and genocidal towards the Palestinians is purely subjective.

I write to oppose the anti-Israel non-binding referendum on the Vergennes Town Meeting Day ballot. Israel is a vibrant democracy. Palestinian Israelis vote alongside Jewish Israelis in all elections. Arab countries of the Middle East and Africa are weak d … (read more)

It would be a gift to Hamas and allow this evil entity to regroup, rearm, and re-attack innocent Jewish/Israeli citizens as they did on October the 7th.