My letter published in The Australian 27/8/12

My letter published in The Australian 27/8/12 

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Eric Butler's views

The Australian 

August 27, 2012 12:00AM

It is not correct that part of my complaint to the council "challenged the claim that Butler was generally anti-Semitic".

The adjudication is more accurate in stating that I complained that Butler's views "were inaccurately portrayed as primarily anti-Semitic when in reality they were principally concerned with public service from a Christian orientation".

My unpublished letter had specifically focused on the injustice of Adams's claim that Butler's "favourite theme" was "the evils of the Jewish race".

An anomaly of the adjudication is its report that The Australian admitted that such might indeed not have been Butler's favourite theme. It is hard to see why the council did not accept that as vindication of that part of my complaint.

Your onslaught on Butler and the council smacks of sour grapes. It also looks like a shield for those Jewish financial interests that were Butler's real target, not the Jews generally.

Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic

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YOUR journalists deserve commendations for showing what the League of Rights and the Press Council stand for. The council's idea that an opinion piece in effect has to take the form of a debate in the first instance, is asinine.

Moreover, the idea all opinions need equal merit and space in a rebuttal by aggrieved parties, is absurd. Both are inimical to common sense.

Geoff Seidner, St Kilda, Vic

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