Accolades on youth of ’76 made me stop reading Jewish Report

Nathan Cheiman, Johannesburg

I reject the editor’s reply that letters which are repetitive, filled with hate speech or written by the same writers every week is rejected, as nonsensical.

SAJR has sought, since February, to abandon publishing contentious letters.

My argument is supported by the editorial in last week’s paper, “Saluting the brave”, in which the editor purports to commend the riots which took place on June 16, 1976, during which many people, including school children, were murdered.

In 1976, and as is the case today, the children who rioted, were from disadvantaged families, mainly black. Today, the previously disadvantaged, still burn and destroy schools and universities. Only the politics have changed.

To mention June 16 in the same sentence as the Holocaust, is disrespectful. (“Lest we forget about the Holocaust”.)

While Jewish youth may have compassion, the ANC and government have a converse view regarding Israel and its Jews. Indeed, the government is a supporter of Hamas and other terrorists.

Your accolades on heaping praise on the youth of ’76 has no place in a Jewish newspaper and it is for this reason that I no longer read the Jewish Report.