14 September 2017 Jewish News
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Editorial comment and letters
Don’t smear the CAA In the dispute craving to be on TV. between the CAA remained silent for JLC and the CAA, I days, working behind the am reminded of the scenes to convince the JLC Palestinians and Isto take the video down, raelis. The CAA came which the JLC did, but up with then they said they stood innovative and sound by the video and started research on antiCAA chair Gideon Falter taking shots at the CAA Semitism, which it again. released in a very measured manner, Finally, the CAA reacted publicly as evidenced by CAA but with great restraint and put the chairman Gideon Falter’s practical JLC in its place. and understated column last week. And who in your editorial did you Unprovoked, the JLC’s chief executell to “calm down, dear”? Why, CAA tive, Simon Johnson, made a video of course, like some well-meaning in which he tried to savage the CAA European diplomat claiming that for doing the research at all, berating Israel should react less effectively Jews for saying they are afraid, and to attacks. smearing CAA’s volunteers for being Daniel Kagan Edgware motivated, claims Johnson, by a mad
A LONE AND WISE VOICE We are fortunate to have a Muslim friend in Maajid Nawaz. His is a lone voice on radio and in Jewish News, and is clear in contrasting the India/Pakistan dilemma with the anti-
Israel stance in the UN (Jewish News, 24 August). Let’s hope his views are replicated by more of his faith.
Sydney Sands By email
IT SEEMS YOU CAN ARGUE WITH STATS
MYTH OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES Martin Stern is spot on when he says the Israel-Palestine question is a “playground fight” compared to the India-Pakistan problem (Jewish News, 31 August). He further points out the Arab world being allowed to get away with the myth of their ‘Nakba’ and their hereditary refugee status. Why has Israel not emphasised the fact that more than 800,000 Jews were displaced from their
If the Campaign Against Antisemitism is right and one in three Jews are looking to leave the UK, can someone explain why you’re as likely to hear Ivrit spoken by Israelis in Stamford Hill and Golders Green as to hear English in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem? It seems English Jews enjoy living in poverty in Kiryat Sefer, whereas Israelis prefer jobs in London. One in three? You can’t argue with statistics – apparently you can.
Noam Bright Stamford Hill
homes in Arab countries, yet one does not hear of them as refugees. They have been absorbed into the countries they made their homes and, in most cases, have become upright citizens contributing in no small way to their adopted countries. It really is time this myth of the so-called Palestinian refugees was blown away. David Kanareck Mill Hill
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