There is an awkwardness here. Your "certain young Christian radical" isn't me. My radicalism is a sometime thing. As Christian, I'm often aberrant. And I'm not so young: I was twenty-nine when Israel came to be. Still, I suppose an open letter can be answered by anyone interested. I feel especially eligible because many of the things you say here have been said to me.

On one level it seems that you and I have few grounds to quarrel. I know, for example, that anti-Semitism is real. Besides the classical Christian form and the modern racist version that you describe, I'll suggest a third—the corporate, petroleum-fueled variety.