RIGHT OF REPLY: To Judge Edwin Cameron: ‘Let us talk to, and hear, one another, on the Israel-Palestine conflict’

, “Can a judge not ask for both sides to be heard?” was in no way an attack on you, or even on your position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I was merely pointing out the double standard in how the political establishment – in this case, the ANC and certain segments of society – adjudicated this situation.

Your deeply personal attack on me – not just on my position, but my character, casting me as “divisive and militant” – speaks to this very same issue. You hold up Archbishop Thabo Makgoba as a paragon of conciliatory leadership. Let me first say – I regard Makgoba, a fellow faith leader, as a friend and respected colleague.

Your article proves the very point I made in my Op-Ed – to even suggest that there may be another way of looking at the situation is to be condemned by the establishment as immoral. There is a strong rational case to be made for the justice of the cause of the State of Israel, and it is wrong to condemn and silence those who try to make this argument, through personal attacks, instead of litigating the issues. There is no legitimacy given even to a call for balance.

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