A simple “the position has been filled” would have sufficed. But it seems that any opportunity to spew antisemitic nonsense these days must not be ignored if this rejection letter sent by a London company to a job applicant of Israeli background is any indication (via Damian Penny).
Absolutely disgusting. But the real question is, will the letter-writer be sacked for his opinion? What percentage of the general public in London these days secretly agrees with him?
Is there a prize for the right answer?
I always assumed that not being an antisemetic asshole was prize enough.
In case you’re wondering more about this guy, here’s a letter he sent to the Guardian on September 28, 2001. Note the references to the New ad Old Testiments. Clearly a long term, committed anti-semite.
The nature of revenge
Friday September 28, 2001
Madeleine Bunting has put her finger on what makes so many Europeans uncomfortable about America’s response to the atrocities (A world apart, September 24).
The word “revenge” isn’t actually expressed by the administration but it’s hovering there in coded forms.
On this side of the Atlantic, the concept of revenge, let alone the word, has been officially out of fashion for 60 years or so.
It carries too many echoes (one has only to recall what the “V” in V-1 and V-2 stood for vergeltungswaffen, or weapons of revenge).
In fact, among Europe’s principal branches of Christianity, revenge has not been a respectable concept for a lot longer.
Since the 19th century they have been more or less unanimous in promulgating the idea of a forgiving Christ and a just God.
In the US there are fewer taboos against revenge. Many of America’s popular evangelical sects take their lead less from the New Testament than from the Old, which contains any amount of slayings and bloodthirsty prescriptions.
More formally, through the notion of “victim’s rights”, revenge is being written into the legal system of many states.
When the victim is actually dead, as in a murder trial, the “right” passes to relatives who are invited to express opinions on the punishment for the perpetrator. To many of us over here, such ideas sound closer to sharia than to justice.
Piers Croke
London
or, “Testaments”
Croke? More like ‘Crock’…