I
wish to express our thanks for your broadcast for the moving play: " Seven Jewish Children", by Caryl
Churchill, on Sunday May 3, 2009.
It
was particularly heartening to hear the support for the play by Ms. Lipman, speaking on behalf of Independent Jewish Voices, a
principled group that stands in opposition to the Israeli illegal and brutal
occupation of Palestininterritories,
that has been allowed to stand for 42 years, in defiance of international
law and repeated Security Council resolutions.
The
statements by your other interviewee, Howard Jacobson, calling the play
anti-Semitic and justifying the war crimes committed by the Israeli armed
forces in Gaza, defy credibility.
It is time that Israel's
apologists begin to see the facts on the ground for what they are and follow
the examples of distinguished Jewish intellectuals and human rights supporters
like Professors Albert Einstein and Israel Shahak,
amongst many other Israeli human rights activists and human rights groups like B'Tselem.
Thank
you for allowing us the opportunity to see the work of an enlightened author.