Rodney Mazinter to The Business Times

Terry Crawford-Browne repeats, not for the first time, some of the appalling statements he has made in the press over the past years (Israelis The Perpetrators). Most of what what he writes that is demonstrably unsubstantiated by credible sources and he draws conclusions in total opposition to reality.

Crawford-Browne is aware that his statement that the Palestinians are living under apartheid similar to the South Africa’s unlamented system, is an egregious lie. Crawford-Browne’s aim is not to fight genuine oppression, but rather to revile Israel, the Middle East’s only liberal democracy and the only country among its neighbors designated as “free” by Freedom House, a non-partisan group that monitors the status of political, human and civil rights around the world.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that Israel, which he described as “one of great outposts of democracy in the world”, has an “incontestable right to exist.” Crawford-Browne’s push against King’s truth can only impede the dream of peace and justice in the Middle East.

 As for BDS, Crawford Browne’s main source of information; Prof. Norman Finkelstein, once one of the movement’s poster boys and its honoured guest in South Africa, had this to say: “BDS is nothing more than a cult. I think [its stance] is silliness, childish and just leftist posturing. It is legally correct to recognise that Israel is a state. The problem with these solidarity movements is that they are a mirror image of the so-called Palestinian Authority, whose means will never achieve their goal, which is the destruction of Israel… Step out of your little cult, your little ghetto, and you enter the real world. …That you focus on Israel’s minorities and not the plight of the 10-million other minorities throughout the Middle East and elsewhere is an indication of what hypocrites you are. Israel has a case and I am tired after so many years having to consider and answer these lies.”

Allan Wolman re Terry Crawford-Brown

Terry Crawford-Brown (C-B) a one- time activist targeting the infamous arms deal and all credit to his efforts in highlighting the malaise of that ill- fated deal, instead of graduating from such a noble cause he has stooped to the ranks of the bigots and racists exposing his anti-Semitic rants for many years now with no let- up of his fabrication and promotion of “fake news” that he well knows can’t be challenged.

He argues vehemently that he is not an anti-Semite! Indeed, anyone who has followed his writing and “ranting”, will know that he hates Israel with a passion that manifests itself in the fabrication and distortion of “facts” so far from the truth and reality, working on the axiom of telling a lie often enough that it morphs into truth. But this is his veiled language of hatred of the Jew, which manifests itself at every opportunity. Surely the editors of almost every newspaper in the country who have published C-B’s writing over many years must have realized what an anti-Semite he is as he has never changed the narrative of his submissions and has never once criticized any other country (or nation) blatantly guilty of the worst human rights abuse. It’s certainly time that editors take a hard look at the language that this racist continues to spew out!

As an ardent supporter of BDS, Palestine Solidarity Movement and other such causes whose mission statement ” from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” where every official Palestinian document, coat of arms, and emblem depict the map of Palestine “from the river to the sea” with no recognition of the legally established State of Israel as a member of the family of nations, clearly spells out his mission to destroy Israel. Unlike any opposition to apartheid S. Africa where the various movements were committed to regime change, C-B and his cohorts, sole agenda is the total demise of and destruction of the Jewish State (read Jewish nation).

Again instead of graduating from a noble cause, C-B lives in a Walter Mitty world thinking that he and those of his ilk can destroy a people that has withstood and outlasted every empire, power and dynasty throughout three thousand years of history, can succeed where they have all failed, can only be living a pipe dream. Dream on C-B!