on the other hand, in a joint letter to the "michigan daily", members of the palestine solidarity committee wrote "a recent letter has accused dr. ali mazrui and his supporters of anti-semitism… we categorically reject this vicious slander." mazrui, in his own defense, stated unequivocally that he was anti-zionist, but that that was a fundamentally different thing from anti-semitism. he admitted to having problems with the israeli government and the zionist movement, but said that he held these views independent of any views about the jewish people as an ethnicity.