{"id":4584,"date":"2019-11-06T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2019-11-12T16:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T03:30:04","slug":"an-open-letter-to-john-minto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2019\/11\/an-open-letter-to-john-minto\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to John Minto"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dear John,<\/p>\n
I recently watched Dr David Cumin and you debate your respective “Perspectives on Israel”<\/a>.<\/p>\n At the event you not only dismissed charges of antisemitism against you personally but also the general accusation that antisemitism is the engine of much of the anti-Israel movement. You told the crowd that when people who single out the Jewish state for destruction and falsely blame Israel for all manner of egregious sins are challenged as modern peddlers of an ancient hatred, this is an orchestrated campaign run by Jews to silence critics of Israel.<\/p>\n Your evidence for this was a single 2003 interview with a disgruntled far-Left Israeli MP<\/a>, Shulamit Aloni, which you claim brought into the sunlight what you refer to as “The Trick”.<\/p>\n I wonder if you will be able to dismiss the following Tweets so easily.<\/p>\n I recently tangled with a colleague of yours on Twitter. Neil Scott – secretary of your new Palestinian Solidarity Network group. I was drawn into the fray by his serial harassment of members of the local Jewish community, which included the spewing of his customary bile on a thread<\/a> in which a representative was wishing the Indian community a happy Diwali.<\/p>\n A class act.<\/p>\n Neil Scott’s Tweets (and these are merely a selection) aren’t just far-Right adjacent, John; they are neo-Nazi tropes that could have been taken, without a word changed, from the notorious White Supremacist website The Daily Stormer. In fact, I very quickly found the same ideas expressed by Scott on the “Jewish Problem” part of the Daily Stormer site.<\/p>\n