Israeli-Arab reporting
Sir, —l am aware that the Bible confers divine preference on the Jews, but does Zionism require its adherents to subscribe to the belief that the Jews are “God’s chcosen ' people”? If it does then I must confess to be antiZionist, which does not require me— I draw F. Innes’s attention to the distinction (“The Press,” July 27) — to be anti-Semitic. A subjective conviction that the Jews do enjoy divine favouritism could explain the Israeli Ambassador’s extraordinary demands made on the press, in the speech in Christchurch (“The Press,” July 5). The lesson that post-World War II generations should have learned is that ideologies of racial superiority, whatever their sanction, are thoroughly evil. Ideologies of “chosen, people” and , “herrenvolk” confronted each other in their ultimate horrifying conclusion in the remorseless logic of the gas-ovens of Belsen and Auschwitz. Both are opposite sides of the same ugly coin.—Yours, etc., M, CREEL.
July 28, 1979. [This correspondence is now closed.—Editor.]
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