Do we not write letters? (Or do the papers not print ’em?)

I’m told that after the Charlotte Observer ran this op-ed by Archbishop Tutu calling for boycott & divestment from “apartheid” in Israel and Palestine, it balanced him with an anti-boycott op-ed. Then a flurry of letters also opposing boycott and standing up for Israel. Two anti-Tutu letters earlier this week, the second one calling Tutu anti-Semitic:

1. Apartheid was based on abhorrent racial injustice. Israel, on the other hand, is bound by international law to administer lands captured in a war to defend itself until negotiations with the Palestinians reach a settlement.

2. Calling for divestment from a country that gives personal freedoms to its citizens, including Arabs, but not calling for divestment from countries that mistreat women and children and even forbid travel across their borders by Jews (which is every other Arab nation) is blatantly prejudicial – some would even call that anti-Semitic.

 

And one more today:

What I saw in Israel bore no resemblance to apartheid state I just returned after three weeks in Israel. I had the privilege of spending a day at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem. There I witnessed Palestinian and Jewish doctors working hand-in-hand. I saw a Palestinian mother hand over her most precious possession – her sick baby – to a Jewish doctor for treatment. Is this what we call an apartheid state? Lila Josephson Fort Mill, S.C.