Skimming a My View (“No excuse seems needed for antisemitism,” Jul 24), one is reminded of the difficulty in grasping the complexities of the human experience. The writer appears to rationalize the century-long killing of 100,000, or more, Palestinians by Jews, as they occupied the former’s territory, by citing the many inventions conceptualized by the latter, with the likely implication that, by comparison, Palestinian innovation has been modest. And there is objective truth to that position. By applying Kuhn’s (a Jew, although non-practicing) paradigmatic analysis of the history of science to other disciplines, mid-19 through mid-20th century thought has been dominated by (at least cultural) Jews; probably only Darwin ranks in influence with Einstein, Freud and Marx.

The My View fails to mention the ballpoint pen, commercially developed by the Jewish László Bíró, who - having converted to Lutheranism - escaped the Nazis and fled to Argentina, where he resided for over forty years, possibly rubbing shoulders with the thousands of Nazis, who escaped justice with the aid of the Vatican and the International Red Cross.

While I agree that one god is a human invention, monotheism - attributed to the Jews by the writer - more likely was a cultural appropriation from Zoroastrianism at the time of their Babylonian Captivity (during which, by all accounts, the Jews were not badly treated).
Michele P. Brown
New York, NY