LETTER: Unjust to single out Israel as racist, as Crawford-Browne does
Terry Crawford-Browne’s writing is underpinned by crass anti-Israel bigotry
Little as I like having to repeat myself, by (predictably) evading the main thrust of my letter Terry Crawford-Browne (“Israel continues to be racist — and silent about it”, June 13) has left me with no choice.
What I wrote was that problems of racism exist in every country, and hence singling out Israel for special condemnation in this regard is simply illogical, as well as unjust. To this, Crawford-Browne dredges up ancient scandals concerning Yemenite and Ethiopian immigrants to Israel as if these were the defining elements of Israeli society, rather than occasional aberrations of the kind that can be found in even in the most progressive countries. ..
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