The South African Jewish Board of Deputies has recently gone online with its project www.letstalkisrael.com, a website intended to explicitly debunk claims that Israel is an apartheid state, an allegation frequently made by Israel’s detractors.
At a briefing session on South African Jewry Thursday at the World Jewish Congress’s New York office, South African Jewish Board of Deputies national director Wendy Kahn underscored the importance of the www.letstalkisrael.com project, calling the apartheid-Israel analogy a deeply flawed one, particularly for those who lived through apartheid."