A disturbing approach

Editor: There were two things in Claire's letter ("Don't give heretics a voice," Bulletin, July 19) that I found especially disturbing. One is her narrow-minded dismissal of critics of Israeli state policy as "heretics." Such "heretics," past and present, include such respected figures as I.F. Stone, Yehudi Menuhin and the renowned Israeli philosopher Yeshayahu Leibowitz.

Worse than this was her bizarre reference to the "goy media." Is it really necessary to use such anachronistic, tribalistic language in discussing our complex multicultural reality in North America at the beginning of the 21st century?

Carl Rosenberg
Vancouver