More about Suzanne Goldenberg
Just before Mum died I discussed an article in Haaretz about Suzanne Goldenberg, former correspondent for the UK Guardian in Israel. On 2nd December, Haaretz published a reaction to the article in the letters to the editor. I think it’s worth translating:

”As someone who has read the articles of Suzanne Goldenberg, former Guardian correspondent in Israel, I can determine that, during all the time she was here, she represented Israel in a negative light with unfair, one-sided and venomous reporting.

She never wrote one positive word about Israel. On the other hand – not one word of criticism about the Palestinians. Arafat, according to her reports, is the Mother Teresa. She never wrote about cruel murder, without trial, of suspects of collaboration with Israel and the public abuse of the bodies of those murdered. The most terrible of Palestinian terrorist actions were Israel’s fault, according to her.

She didn’t write about Israel and its accomplishments in science, in technology, in hi-tech, about Israeli democracy. She tells us now about freedom of the press in Israel, these words of praise she utters only now, from afar.

She was a willing accomplice in the Arab propaganda effort to butt Israel and undermine the legitimacy of its people. When I saw she had left, I said “Good riddance”.

The only thing that can be said in her defense is that the Guardian newspaper is a newspaper with a decidedly anti-Israel editorial line, and that its editor for foreign affairs, Brian Whittaker, competed with her in writing anti-Israeli articles.

Eli Tavori
Jerusalem”