ISRAEL AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE

July 8, 2024

I have long been a reader and an enthusiastic supporter of Pearls & Irritations which I have almost always regarded as a brilliant and valued journal. However, things began to change for me as a Jew after 7 October 2023.

I became so disillusioned by your one-sided, and unbalanced reporting about the tragedies taking place in Israel/Gaza that I unsubscribed but eventually, realizing my own loss in doing so and missing so many of your other deeply thoughtful articles that I thought better and decided to resubscribe and even recently published once more on your site.

To be clear, I get that there are different points of view and I have no difficulty in accepting your publishing views which do not coincide with my own.

However, my dismay arises from the total absence of any other point of view about this tragic conflict. As in the article which I am referring to in this letter, the views expressed are highly selective and highly prejudicial indeed insulting of the Jewish people.

I have tried months back to submit a few articles setting out a different point of view, but they have not been published as is your right. However, I genuinely encourage you to consider publishing views which are different to the anti-Semitic opinions which I read so frequently in your journal.