Guest columnist Jeff Napolitano doesn’t understand why some members of the River Valley Co-op believe the proposed deshelving of Israeli products is “divisive” unless it’s because “some members actually support that apartheid and genocide?” [“Genocide, apartheid on the ballot at co-op,” Oct. 30].

I was going to try to explain why the proposal is creating such discord, then realized that the writer’s own words eloquently demonstrate how divisive this proposal has become.

Frederick Civian

Amherst