Charliehall — I strongly agree with your overall assertion that the U.S. has treated more Jews fairly then any other country in the world. I am shocked that anyone can say otherwise. The system isn’t perfect — nothing is — but it is head and shoulders above anything else!
However, as far as your discussion of the Pollard case, your comparison to the Rosenbergs is wrong. The Rosenbergs were convicted of “conspiracy to commit espionage during a time of war.” That conviction comes with much harsher penalties than Pollard’s conviction (via the plead deal) of “one count of passing classified information to an ally without the intent to harm the U.S.” (Ally here is used in terms of its application in the espionage act under which he was convicted, not in terms of any military or political significance.) A similarity between the cases does exist in that the Rosenbergs were the first civilians in U.S. history to receive the death penalty for espionage (according to many historians wrongfully so), and Pollard was the first to receive significant jail time for his category of conviction. The next closest sentence, of Steven Lalas, was for 14 years. Lalas was convicted of spying for Greece, including outing numerous CIA agents there and putting their lives at risk. Additionally he violated many of the terms of his plea bargain (unlike Pollard who kept all the terms except for one — the gag order). Nevertheless his total sentence was for 14 year — much less than Pollard has already served. The median sentence for this conviction is 2 to 4 years! Even many convicted of spying for enemy countries (the Soviet Union, Cuba, Iran, East Germany) received less than 10 years. And the notorious Ames, who was convicted of treason and responsible for the DEATH of at least 11 U.S. agents received the same sentence (life in prison), but under much better terms (for example no time in the harsh “K” unit at FCI Marion where Pollard spent 7 years in solitary confinement!).
Pollard was not innocent — but he got far more than he deserved, by any objective legal standard, even taking into consideration his violation of the gag order.