Opinion
Referring to Israel as an apartheid state is part of the world’s biggest lie
Last week we published responses to Tony Leon’s column “Israel a handy alibi for SA’s poor foreign policy” (March 28 ). Responses to Leon from Roshan Dadoo and Ziyad Motala, both published on April 4, plus a letter from EM Cassim, have elicited a number of counter-responses. We publish one of these here. All subsequent correspondence on this issue will be published online
In your edition of April 4, you published four articles pertaining to the Israel-Palestine dilemma: an objective report by Franny Rabkin on the chief justice’s outspoken comments (“Mogoeng hits back at ‘flawed’ censure by JCC (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/2021-04-04-mogoeng-mogoeng-hits-back-at-flawed-censure-by-jcc/)”), a contentious letter by EC Hassim (“Leon, chief justice ignore Israeli persecution”), and two opinion pieces, by Roshan Dadoo, convenor of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) SA coalition committee (“Forget Leon, SA must fight Israeli apartheid (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2021-04-04-forget-leon-sa-must-fight-israeli-apartheid/)”) and Ziyad Motala, a professor of law at Howard University School of Law (“Leon’s defence of Israel a spurious claim of victimhood (https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/opinion-and-analysis/2021-04-04-leons-defence-of-israel-a-spurious-claim-of-victimhood/)”)...
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