Clarence Musgrave
Subtle- or Not so Subtle- Ethnic Cleansing
Circular Letter No 186
24th September 2004
At the start of last week's letter I mentioned that we had met some of the members of the Peace and Justice Network of the Anglican Church. Yesterday, there was a report in the press here (Haaretz 23rd September P 8) under the headline "Anglican delegation to recommend divestment." 'Leading members of the Anglican Church will recommend that their decision-making body adopt an anti-Israel divestment policy similar to the one the Presbyterian Church (of the USA) passed earlier this summer.' This sort of action is not dissimilar to that taken years ago when Apartheid was still the official policy in South Africa. Interestingly, in one of the meetings that we had this week with a member of staff of B'Tselem, he expressed concern about the fact that Israel might be perceived by the world at large as another version of South Africa, and hoped that a resolution to the current conflict would be found before this happened.
