STILL MORE ON NIGHTLINE: Reader Laura Hodes weighs in:

I saw the show, and agree with both Bernstein and Jarvik: parts of it were anti-Semitic. It tried to be too balanced in its portrayal of attacks in France, suggesting that Jews also committed acts against Arabs. It allowed Hitchens more air time than Foxman or Wiesel, and cut off Foxman and Wiesel at key moment, whereas allowed Hitchens to go on and on, and mentioned that he has a Jewish mother and wife as if that justified his pro-Palestinian opinions. And Hitchen’s point was how hard it is for him because he has to be careful what he says b/c people will call him an Anti-Semite–poor baby. His whole emphasis was on him, and how hard he has it. Also, at one point Donovan says to him: “so you’re saying the debate is more muffled in the U.S. than in Europe”? The word “muffled” is coded, meaning that Hitchen must have said (it was cut) that in the U.S. pro-Palestinian sentiment by pundits is quieted. Why? As Hitchens said (my notes are at home), there is a “very strong Jewish lobby in D.C”. I found that statement, and the whole emphasis, and the way Nightline allowed Hitchens to say this wiithout any questioning by Donovan, to be anti-Semitic.