To the editor:

The cartoon published in the Emory Wheel comparing Jews to Nazis is historically inaccurate, belittling to the Holocaust, slanderous to Israel and the Jewish people and, in our view, frankly antisemitic. The Wheel owes all its readers a retraction and an apology. We acknowledge the Wheel’s First Amendment rights, and we assert our own right to denounce the bigoted and irresponsible content that it may print.

Alan Abramowitz, Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science

Frank S. Alexander, Professor of Law

Angelika Bammer, Associate Professor in the Institute of Liberal Arts

Robert Bartlett, Arthur Blank/National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor

Michael Berger, Associate Professor of Religion, Law and Religion, and Jewish Studies

David Blumenthal, Jay and Leslie Cohen Professor of Judaic Studies

Oded Borowski, Professor of Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew

Michael Broyde, Professor of Law

Rudolph Byrd, Goodrich C. White Professor of American Studies

Vincent Cornell, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies

Richard Doner, Professor of Political Science

Tara Doyle, Senior Lecturer in Religion

Marshall Duke, Candler Professor of Psychology

Astrid M. Eckert, Assistant Professor of History

Shoshana Felman, Woodruff Professor of Comparative Literature and French

Sander L. Gilman, Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Hazel Gold, Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Benjamin Hary, Associate Professor of Hebrew, Arabic and Linguistics

Ann Hartle, Professor of Philosophy

Peter Höyng, Associate Professor of German

Herbert Karp, Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Emeritus Medical Director, Wesley Woods Hospital

Walter Kalaidjian, Professor of English

Harvey Klehr, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Politics and History

Melvin Konner, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology

Howard I. Kushner, Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor, Rollins School of Public Health and Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts

Scott Lilienfeld, Professor of Psychology

Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies

Judd Owen, Associate Professor of Political Science

Edward L. Queen, Director, Ethics and Servant Leadership Program and Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies, Center for Ethics

Dan Reiter, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science

Mark Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies and English

Caroline Schaumann, Assistant Professor of German Studies

Raymond F. Schinazi, Frances Winship Walters Professor of Pediatrics

Joseph Skibell, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and English and Director, The Ellmann Lectures

Barbara J. Stoll, George W. Brumley Jr. Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Donald Stein, Asa G. Candler Professor, School of Medicine

Kenneth W. Stein, William E. Schatten Professor of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Political Science and Israeli Studies

Brian Vick, Assistant Professor of History

John Witte Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion

Paul Root Wolpe, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Bioethics and Director, Center for Ethics