Voices
BDS, stop bullying women and rather sponsor trips to Israel
In June, two young women – model and media personality Shashi Naidoo and the DA’s health MMC, Dr Mpho Phalatse – were reduced to tears by the BDS and militant Muslims, and shamed and vilified in the full glare of publicity. They were forced to retract their perfectly valid and honest comments on Israel.
Fey Miller, Johannesburg
Instead of forcing them to do so, why don’t the BDS and militant Muslims offer to sponsor them to visit Israel and the West Bank, where they would be free for about 10 days – and this is imperative – to do their own thing, with no one tracking their movements and without any form of intimidation. Then allow them, on their return to South Africa, to again express their honest response to their travels, without intimidation.
BDS and the militants will then surely not be happy with their findings and will regret their offer of sponsorship. Their bias, hypocrisy and outrageous lies about Israel and Jews boggles the mind.
Incidentally , why does the ANC not allow the recalled ambassador to Israel to express his truthful opinion – hopefully, without intimidation – of his term of office there? I’ll bet that this will never happen, purely because he would be out of office instantly and out of a lucrative job and pension.