I am outraged as an American citizen to learn that your publication has published an argument by Robert Azzi (Dec. 22) that the New England Patriots team should be boycotted to punish the team’s owner for supporting the inclusion of Jewish students in the protections afforded to all other ethnic groups against discrimination and harassment on college campuses because of their background.
Jewish students have regularly been targeted for violent attacks on American college campuses, and because of this recent change, they will finally have a way of appealing for U.S. government enforcement of the same norms for individual rights which all other groups on American college campuses already enjoy.
The Obama administration declined to protect Jewish students, claiming that they were not technically among the protect groups under existing regulations and law, despite numerous instances in which Jews on campus were subject to hateful, discriminatory and violent behavior which no student on an American campus should ever have to live with.
Your paper has printed a call for a boycott to punish an individual who supported the protection of Jews against hate-mongers. This support for denying Jewish people their civil rights by your paper is unworthy of the noble heritage of New England Patriots, who have always stood up for freedom and fairness. I call on you to educate yourself about this issue and remedy your error. Discrimination and bigotry are never okay.
Louise Wolfe
Belmont