LETTER: UCT dabbles in anti-Semitism
So-called anti-Zionism is a new disguise for an old threat
Milton Shain “UCT’s Ostracisation of Israeli Scholarship Grossly Hypocritical” (March 29) focuses on the irrationality and hypocrisy of the University of Cape Town Senate’s (UCT’s) U-turn on boycotting Israeli academic institutions, but I would prefer to highlight a more sinister concern, which he only touches on. The fact is that when an institution with no special connection to the issue, and in exclusion of all other issues, concerns itself to this extent with one state (which happens to be the Jewish state), even taking into consideration the UCT Senate’s past weakness in dealing with populist demands, you are talking about anti-Semitism or at the least facilitating the anti-Semitism of organisations such as BDS by default. Much as we hear that citing anti-Semitism is used to silence opposition to Israel, events throughout the world, be it in the UK, the US, France or Germany, clearly demonstrate the opposite: that so-called anti-Zionism is a new disguise for an old threat. Much...
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