This is an edited version of what I left in her email prompt on her website:

“Hello, first of all, I want to say that I admire the passion of/in your writing. Yes, take no prisoners (pun unintended). I think you wrote something for The Smithsonian about Anne Frank that I really enjoyed.
“Since we no longer have an old Village Voice Letters Page to emphatically argue these points:
“I appreciated your article. I’m unapologetically on the other side of this issue. Because of that (most of my tears are for those Palestinian babies), I would have appreciated it a lot more if it had carried this paragraph or something like it, using your argument and tone:

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‘Many people–including some of my fellow, deluded Jewish Americans–incorrectly believe that Israel is an apartheid state. Therefore, openly supporting such a state, in their (the activists’) view, means that they (the victims in the article) are fair game, whether in Harvard Yard or at a music festival in Israel. I think this ‘thinking’ is morally, politically and spiritually bankrupt and I would have believed so if there was a substantial Afrikanner-American population in the United States being abused during the apartheid years. (There was not.) No one has the right to make an American citizen, privileged or not, feel unsafe in the United States because of their views of, and open love for, their ancestral homeland.’

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“We’ll agree to disagree on this one. But thanks again for that work on Anne Frank.

–TSB”