Fatima Hendricks’s ‘double standards on humanitarianism’

SINCE atrocities have occurred on both sides in the Israel/Hamas conflict, it is difficult to sympathise with Dr Fatima Hendricks’s account of her detention by Israeli forces as a result of her participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla mission to Gaza, given the mission’s documented links with Hamas (the POST, October 22 — 26 refers).

- DUNCAN DU BOIS Bluff

Aligned with the Hamas-supporting Moslem Judicial Council of South Africa, no amount of emotional hyperventilating on her part can detract from the context of Dr Hendricks’s moorings.

Despite the humanitarian nature of the Sumud mission, she rails against the treatment her group experienced at the hands of their Israeli captors, describing it as “inhumane and harrowing”.