Philip Kurian responds to my email regarding his anti-Semitic editorial:
Dear David,
I appreciate your candor and willingness to consider my perspective, however naive and uninformed. I want to assure you that I harbor no hatred towards the Jewish people, and the intentions in my writing were not insidious.
My main contention is that SOME Jews worked very hard to suppress the free speech of others at Duke, not just present their own point of view. I respect not only your right to speak your mind, but anyone else’s.
Once again, I appreciate your civility and frankness in this discussion.
My best,
Philip
My response to follow soon.
