Voices
Drop of ruinous paint on Mona Lisa canvas
Your editorial in a recent SA Jewish Report asks: “Does a blotch on a great picture, ruin it?”
Fred Levy, Cape Town
Your confliction in the answer is obvious, but far too tinged with your closeness to the subject in this case.
Would a drop of paint on the canvas of the Mona Lisa, ruin it? Most certainly it would.
So, we are left with a defence of a person, and others, who probably found security in their association with a dreadful ideology, and (worse) gave financial support, with full knowledge of an unforgivable and similar, period for Jews in Europe.
It just does not wash.