POLITICS

These are the charges I'm laying against the SAJBD - Tony Ehrenreich

Unionist says the Board must be held complicit in the death threats directed against him

Tony Ehrenreich to lay charges against the Jewish Board of Deputies, in his personal capacity

Tony Ehrenreich will lay charges against the Jewish Board of Deputies and its Directors and Office Bearers at the Cape Town Police station at 11h00 on Tuesday 19th of August 2014.

The charges can be summarised as follows:

The Jewish Board of Deputies are funding and providing moral justification to the Israeli army genocide in Gaza.

The Jewish Board of Deputies are encouraging and recruiting young men from South Africa, to break the law and go and fight in the Israeli army.

The Jewish Board of Deputies acts against the stated policy of SA to promote peaceful dialogue as the mechanism to end conflict by refusing to condemn the killing of women and children in Gaza.

The victimisation and death threats that Ehrenreich is receiving via telephone, e-mail, Facebook and in tweets, are linked to his challenging the Jewish Board of Deputies.

The craziest death threat via cell phone was from 0829008973 and went as follows; "Tony you are an anti-Semitic C... and I am going to kill you, you piece of shit".

Whilst these threats are taken with a pinch of salt, the Jewish Board of Deputies are the ones who are portraying me as being anti-Semitic, and so they must be held complicit in these threats. Those making the threats must realise that this is not Palestine where people are not able to respond with an equal reaction to aggression.

Statement issued by Tony Ehrenreich, August 18 2014

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