When Writing an Irate Letter to the Editor Is Just Not Enough

Forward is a highly respected Jewish weekly, which is being pressured by a conservative pollster who believes that there is more anti-Israel bias on campus than the editors of Forward do. This is a good example of hardline denizens using coercive tactics to drive their message home. When Writing an Irate Letter to the Editor Is Just Not Enough - New York Times: "Mr. Luntz became angered after reading a June 24 article about his recent report assessing graduate students' attitudes toward Israel. Mr. Luntz dashed off an incensed e-mail message to J. J. Goldberg, the paper's editor. Rather than ask for a retraction or correction, he pledged to disparage The Forward at meetings of Jewish donors where Mr. Luntz regularly speaks. Maybe, he wrote, 'an advertising boycott of The Forward might help the publication refocus on accuracy and get it right in the future.'
Mr. Luntz's report said that many students at elite universities, some of whom could become policy makers, are anti-Israel. The article in The Forward contrasted that with findings of undergraduate student groups that sympathies toward Israel had grown stronger in the last two years. "