Calls for ceasefire in Gaza not anti-Semitic

Every day the news reports tell me of more civilian deaths in Gaza. Of direct killings and unendurable living conditions. Innocent people are dying, a great many of them children. They will soon be dying even more rapidly as disease ravages the camps and shelters where the children and their families are trapped.

When is America going to demand an end to the killing of children and their families? Children are being forced into tighter and tighter spaces and slaughtered. American money is paying for the armaments used to do this. Children are dying and Americans are paying to let it happen. This isn’t about antisemitism or any other “ism.” It’s about babies and toddlers and little girls and little boys and the mothers and fathers who are trying to keep them safe.

It is way past time to demand an end to this horror.

Myrna Loehrlein

Cedar Rapids