When a university professor writes an article, the least one expects is a semblance of objectivity (Veil off anti-Israel lobby, January 16). Honesty would be sine qua non. Hailing from the University of Cape Town’s historical studies department, one would at least expect historical appreciation of context, space and time. Milton Shain sadly fails on all counts simply because he operates as a hack for the Israel lobby, particularly its extreme-right, Islamophobic version. Strangely, he begins by categorising the actions of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement as "subversive" – in this Shain mimics antisemites, who use such loaded terms to question the loyalty of Jews to their home countries. He flips that to Palestinian human rights activists. He then accuses this organisation of having "captured the foreign policy of the ANC and state". Another mimicry of antisemites against Jews. But it is also an insult to the integrity of the ANC, which is characterised as a body una...
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