When a news nose can t sniff out nonsense 25 April 2021 - 00:00
Just what counts as news? A former editor of The Spectator used to tell a story about a posh friend of his who was shocked, on his first day in a newsroom, to learn that he would be required to write about news and call people he did not know in order to ask them questions. Hello, he would say to whichever government department he was calling, appalled at the sheer vulgarity of it all, do you have any news? ..
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26 April 2021 - 17:51 By TimesLIVE Advocate Lawrence Lever and judge David Unterhalter were subjected to questions about their Jewish identity, the Palestine-Israel conflict and their views on the two-state solution . Stock photo. Image: 123RFEvgenyi Lastochkin
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on Wednesday noted that questions of a “discriminatory and anti-constitutional nature” had been asked of two Jewish judicial candidates interviewed by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
“Advocate Lawrence Lever and judge David Unterhalter were subjected to questions pertaining to their Jewish identity while no other candidates were subjected to offensive religious scrutiny,” SAJBD national director Wendy Kahn said in a statement on Monday, which included transcripts of the interviews.
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