So Pollard is the only person sitting in jail in the United States who shouldn't be? Such a shame Leonard Peltier isn't a Jew- maybe his plight would get more press? Greg F., Whether or not that was your intention, your comment is deeply offensive and its implications are recognizably anti-Semitic. The Leonard Peltier case has had more prominence in the mainstream media than that of Jonathan Pollard. Try doing Google searchs with each of their names in quotation marks. "Leonard Peltier" gets 54,300 hits. "Jonathan Pollard" gets 18,600. Do a NEWS search at Google and "Leonard Peltier" gets 25 hits, most of them from mainstream media. Do a NEWS search on "Jonathan Pollard" and you get 30 hits, 21 of which come from Jewish or Arab media outlets, and 3 of which are for other Jonathan Pollards.
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