Letters
No boycott of Israel thanks
09 May 2005
Dear Sir
The AUT’s pernicious motion singles out Israel for opprobrium while ignoring the human rights record of a dozen or more countries. Such a selective attitude is bigoted and discriminatory and it is intellectually dishonest to pretend otherwise. Those in our own community who are willing to delegitimise the state of Israel in this way should hang their heads in shame. If Rosamine Hayeem thinks this is wrong, then I offer the following very simple challenge. I ask her to justify why there should be a boycott solely against the region’s only proper democracy, against the only country in the Middle East with an independent judiciary that regularly scrutinizes the actions of its own government, against the only country with an independent media, against the country with the best protection for the rights of racial minorities, gays and women and against the country with a human rights record that is comparable to the world’s leading democracies. I await her response.
Yours sincerely
Jeremy Havardi
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