In printing the article about Israel and the Palestinians by Kemp and Pinto, you have published a piece of unashamed one-sided political propaganda thinly disguised as professional analysis. It is therefore appropriate to publish a response which focuses on the political issues raised, rather than the therapy issues. 

In speaking of the ‘power intoxication’ of Israelis, Dr Ruchama Martin does not even bother with the disguise. Her assertion that ‘no-one mentions the occupation’ is just fantasy as anyone who has ever read the English editions of Israeli newspapers will know.

If you are going to publish political polemics, you would carry far more credibility if you made a scintilla of effort to be balanced. Jeff Halper whose usual anti-Israel diatribe you quote (‘racial displacement’) is notorious as disagreeing with the DNA of Israel as a state grounded in Judaism.

Jonathan Hoffman
Co-Vice Chair. Zionist Federation