Among other derogatory comments, Dr Shuaib Manjra accuses me of "operating as a hack for the Israel lobby" (Biased view of Palestine, January 22). He is quite wrong. We simply disagree on BDS. He would have to say the same about Noam Chomsky and Eric Alterman, professor of journalism at City University of New York and a columnist for the Nation, whose progressive views are unassailable. Chomsky has seriously questioned BDS tactics and Alterman has exposed the true aims of BDS, while throwing light on its contradictory policies. Even Norman Finkelstein has expressed opposition to a cultural boycott of Israel. If anyone is a hack, it is Manjra, who appears to spend much of his time engaged in matters outside the scope of his professional competence. More than that, he fails to mention his role as a BDS activist at the University of Cape Town. Talk about a lobby! It seems to me that sports medical scientists (if Manjra is representative) don’t appreciate the basic fact that scholars ca...
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