My recent guest commentary on human rights abuses by the Israeli government (“We are partnered with wrong side in Middle East,” May 6) drew close to 1,000 comments. Many of them were very supportive, but I also saw an outpouring of hate that I had never experienced before, along with the accusation of anti-Semitism. While I was careful to restrict my remarks to what I believed factual, George Pyle, in Sunday’s editorial section, chastised me for some unnecessarily strong language.
In my commentary I attempted to differentiate between the Jews and their Israeli government, but it seems that the distinction eventually became blurred.