Editor,
In response to Kathleen Christison's letter on Wednesday, I ask the Daily Lobo staff to show more sensitivity in publishing articles with potentially erroneous information about individuals.
Rather than address the substantive arguments of my opinion column, Christison focused her attack on me, suggesting my beliefs would be different "had (I) ever been to the West Bank." Christison does not know me, nor has she ever met me. She has no right to make this assertion. I have spent significant time in the West Bank, particularly Ramallah, Nablus and Efrat, in both Israeli settlements and
Palestinian cities. I have stood in line with Palestinians at Israeli checkpoints. Additionally, I have traveled widely throughout Egypt and Jordan and will be returning to Cairo for language study this summer.
Opinion columns are supposed to be a safe way for students to engage in open discussion. However, given that anybody may publish potentially libelous, defamatory remarks about individuals who write opinion columns without adequate editorial review, this paper has set a dangerous precedent. I request that you show more discretion in the future to guarantee the integrity of writers.
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Rachel Fredman
UNM student and president
of UNM Israel Alliance
