Does "led to charges of
anti-Semitism" mean "led to charges of
anti-Semitism against him (John Hartung) and Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins and
Kevin McDonald"?
Background info:
John Hartung (born 1947) is a Professor of
Anesthesiology at the
State University of New York. His BA is from the
University of Pennsylvania and his
PhD is from
Harvard University in
anthropology. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology.
[1]He has also published some widely cited work in other fields, notably some early pioneering research in
human behavioral ecology on
inheritance patterns
[2] and also a controversial paper in
Skeptic (U.S. magazine) in which he argued that biblical injunctions to 'love thy neighbour' and the
Ten Commandments were, properly interpreted, intended to apply only to behavior towards fellow
Jews.
[3] This latter article has been referred to favourably in popular books such as
Matt Ridley's
The Origins of Virtue and
Richard Dawkins's bestseller
The God Delusion, but also, together with a favourable review of the earlier work of controversial
psychologist Kevin McDonald on
Judaism,
[4] led to charges of anti-Semitism.