Open letter from Shaun Zagnoev, Gauteng Chairman, SA Jewish Board of Deputies, to Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau, March 22 2015
Dear Mayor Tau
I write to you in the format of an open letter due to the fact that your Chief of Staff told us that he was refusing to share with you the previous letter we sent 3 March 2015.
We note that you will be hosting a `Palestine Solidarity Week' this week and want to voice our distress that you have elected to partner in this with BDS SA, a group that has been responsible for creating a climate of hate against Johannesburg and South African Jewry.
Their campaigns over the past couple of years have resulted in blatant Jew hatred including:
BDS protest against Wits hosting an Israeli Jazz Quartet resulted in protesters singing Dubula e'Juda (shoot the Jew) which was justified by their coordinator Mohammed Desai