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Rhodes VC accused of ‘Hatred of Jews’
Rhodes is again being accused of being anti-Jewish & refuses to respond to its accusers. Jewish students feel threatened. Jewish faculty-members talk of a “toxic” environment on campus. Prof Steven Friedman is inserted as a Jewish voice in a neutral debate. The VC is accused of “one-sided and inflammatory statements, evidently fuelled by a baseless and unsubstantiated hatred of Jews” by an alumnus he refuses to talk to. Read on…
ANT KATZ
“As an alumnus of Rhodes University … I take umbrage at the stance by the university to include me in this biased and one-sided view which sadly reflects ignorance of the tragic situation currently in both Gaza and Israel.”
So wrote a frustrated Linda Gordon to Rhodes’ acting vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela, who she accused of making statements so “one-sided and inflammatory,” and “evidently fuelled by a baseless and unsubstantiated hatred of Jews.”
She responded with a letter to the editor in her capacity as an alumnus of Rhodes “and a proud South African Jewess”, stating that she was “appalled” at Mabizela.
Dr Mabizela refused to respond to Gordon – or to the Jewish Report. Today, Thursday, in the wake of the latest allegations, further information was brought to the attention of Jewish Report which is being scrutinised and checked before publication.
Discomfort increasing
Jews and Jewish sympathisers that Jewish Report spoke to today on the Rhodes campus say that their discomfort is increasing.
Those in authority, who should be putting a damper on the inflammatory actions of some on the campus, they say, are actually fuelling the fires by their own statements and actions.
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nat cheiman
September 4, 2014 at 6:42 pm
‘Pity that Dr Mabizela has that view, but perhaps that is how [Assumption, not in the scope of our knowledge therefore removed -ED]
\nI wonder if he is better qualified than Dr Pallo Jordan.
\nNow that would be an interesting excercise.
\nIt might just be that he is lying low just in case his
\nqualifications are scrutinised.’
Zusman Osterman
September 5, 2014 at 8:37 am
‘Dr Mabizela is in a corner and cannot answer questions to extricate him from his position. With President Zuma also skirting issues, hopefully the once magnificent Rhodes University doesn’t follow the Grahamstown Municipality into service delivery problems.’