ive just had a look at the letter that inflamed the anti-anti-semites, and it doesnt appear to me to be at all what i wouldhave expected from the rancour it incited:


Dear Amit Duvshani,

Thank you for contacting me, but I don't think this would work. I have a huge problem with the way that the Israelis take the moral high ground from their appalling treatment in the Holocaust, and then inflict gross human rights abuses on the Palestinians because they (the Palestinians) wish to live in their own country.

I am sure that you are perfectly nice at a personal level, but no way would I take on somebody who had served in the Israeli army. As you may be aware, I am not the only UK scientist with these views but I'm sure you will find another suitable lab if you look around.

Yours sincerely,
Andrew Wilkie

Nuffield Professor of Pathology,
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine,
The John Radcliffe,
Headington,
Oxford OX3 9DS,
UK.
 http://www.mandrus.org/

And thats it! What exactly is anti-semitic in this? Nothing, but the oversensitie anti-anti-semites found it very useful in their war against the palestinians.