The War on Terror

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By Virginia Tilley

(source: BusinessDay, 7/5/2010)

Although there’s little to engage seriously in the letters that responded to mine, readers may wish to have some misinformation corrected.

I’m accused by H Gluckman of not having my facts straight in affirming the Goldstone affair had obtained a global reach (No fatwas from Jews, Letters, April 29). If H Gluckman has no internet access, a recent edition of SA’s Jewish Report bemoans the global scope of the scandal in its cover editorial.

I’m also accused of making up the scathing denunciations of Jewish critics of Israel that have appeared in the pews of SA’s shuls. I’ve been in those pews and draw on personal experience (Get your facts right, Letters, April 29). I can’t speak for Steven Friedman or Ronnie Kasrils but if correspondents H Gluckman and Sol Cowan are so confident of their portrait of the tolerance and inclusion these men have enjoyed, it’s simple to ask them. (A climate of intimidation, Mr Cowan, is not measured by the public face of those rare individuals who stand up to it.)

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