In defending his decision to publish Justin Keating’s commentary attacking Israel’s right to exist, Trevor White, editor of The Dubliner may have poured more fuel on the fire. Dismissing some 2,000 letters received from readers of HonestReporting’s critique, White told Manchester’s Jewish Telegraph:
White said consensus positions should never be accepted and offered an analogy, which may provoke more consternation.
“You may as well argue in Nazi Germany it was legitimate to hate Jews because a lot of people did,” he said.
Meanwhile, the JTA adds that Keating, a historian and former cabinet minister, will write a rebuttal in the magazine’s December edition, and that RTE, Ireland’s state broadcaster, has scheduled a panel discussion on the controversy for Thursday.
