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“As an alumnus of Rhodes University … I take umbrage at the stance by the university to include me in this biased and one-sided view which sadly reflects ignorance of the tragic situation currently in both Gaza and Israel.”

So wrote a frustrated Linda Gordon to Rhodes’ acting vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela, who she accused of making statements so “one-sided and inflammatory,” and “evidently fuelled by a baseless and unsubstantiated hatred of Jews.”

Linda Gordon had read the words of Rhodes’ acting vice-chancellor Dr Sizwe Mabizela  (PICTURED AT LEFT) which appeared in an article “World fails Gaza’s children” in the East London Daily Dispatch last month. 

She responded with a letter to the editor in her capacity as an alumnus of Rhodes “and a proud South African Jewess”, stating that she was “appalled” at Mabizela.

Dr Mabizela refused to respond to Gordon – or to the Jewish Report. Today, Thursday, in the wake of the latest allegations, further information was brought to the attention of Jewish Report which is being scrutinised and checked before publication.

Discomfort increasing

Jews and Jewish sympathisers that Jewish Report spoke to today on the Rhodes campus say that their discomfort is increasing.

Those in authority, who should be putting a damper on the inflammatory actions of some on the campus, they say, are actually fuelling the fires by their own statements and actions.

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