"Pinter barely has to think an anti Western thought and it’s splashed across every newspaper"
An instance, please.

Steve, Birmingham,

All this reminds me (pace another Times of London article) of the sickening spectacle of the Dixie Chicks. They and their supporters cry "censorship" in the media when their fans objected to one of their members saying something in London that they would never have the guts to say in the U.S. - all the while posing (naked) on the cover of `Entertainment Weekly.'

It makes me ill when multimillionaire rock stars with automatic access to the news media are posited as being `censored'

R.B. Glennie, Ottawa, Canada

Does MickJ of Brixton really consider that white, male, middle class and middle-aged is positioned in the "zero pH" band of ethnicity ? Zero pH implies extreme acidity and corrosiveness. What metaphor is being attempted here ?

ColinG, Doha, Qatar

"We do not hear anything else"

You obviously don't read the "Independent" for example, which is very clear on the subject. Especially the letters page.

The idea that anti-Israeli views are not heard in the British media is absurd. If anything, the opposite is true.

As for "the terrible humanitarian situation in Palestine", Palestinians could start fixing that tomorrow by abandoning violence (used even internally) as their first choice for settling disputes, if only by stopping spending money on weapons and starting to spend it on people. For extra points, they could cease their illegal attacks on the internationally-recognised sovereign state next door.

Alex Swanson, Milton Keynes, UK

Comprised of ? Comprised of ? If you can demonstrate that you have read and digested the Times Style Guide, they may promote you to a weekly column.

ColinG, Doha, Qatar

My, oh my, someone complaining that the pro-Israle voice is not heard enough. We do not hear anything else, be it from the USA or from Israel. Neither wants to recognize that after having been the victim of holocaust, Israel is now treating Palestinians as sub-humans (albeit without extermination camps, thank God).
The wall of shame and the terrible humanitarian situation in Palestine are more worthy of discussion than the supposed 'anti-semitic' noise in the media.

Bill Sullivan, Bristol, UK

Surely the issue is not that the IJV or the Board of Deputies are trying to "silence" each other (if only that were possible) but that both groups seem to think their opinions on Israel carry extra weight because their members are Jews. It's time to end this poisonous culture of privileging the views of "community leaders" , and with it the insulting assumption that ethnic or religious minorities are only capable of groupthink.
I'm lucky--I come from the "zero pH" band of British ethnicity, white, male, middle-class and middle-aged. No-one presumes to speak for me or my kind. Instead I have all one can reasonably ask for in a democracy--my views, my voice and my vote.

MickJ, Brixton,

I think that when they say "silenced", they are trying to be polite, and what they actually mean is that they are sick of getting more or less frivolously accused of anti-Semitism, by newspaper columnists and rinky-dink one-man-and-his-dog "thinktanks" (but I repeat myself).

Daniel Davies, London,

Cannot believe anyone on the Planet doesn't know Stephen Fry is? He stalks the Media scattering his views like corn, which they often are,
Pollard speaks the truth on other matters in this fine article.
Columnism is the new Red under the Bed.

skidmore, march, Cambs,England

Stephen Pollard regularly makes the claim that Slobodan Milosevic was a 'genocidal butcher' but when questioned he has repeatedly failed to produce any evidence to back up the claim. He should be aware that the four year trial of Milosevic at The Hague failed to produce any evidence to support the assertion that Milosevic was a 'genocidal butcher', or indeed that the former Yugoslav President ordered war crimes.
Can Pollard produce any evidence?
If not, he should desist from making such statements in a public arena.

Neil Clark, Oxford,

Surely Stephen Pollard has missed the point the IJV were attempting to make entirely?
Surely what they were suggesting is that Jews don't all speak with the same voice, and that to suggest otherwise is to deal in stereotypes, to think in cartoons? We are all far too good as trying to silence dissenting voices when it might be better to listen and take in what they have to say. That is a universally valid view, and one Mr Pollard might do well to adopt himself.

John Reid, Rotorua, New Zealand

I don't follow your argument vis-a-vis the title of your article and it's conclusion. I think there is a received wisdom which tends to prevail irrespective of the facts, and a perceived wisdom which doesn't but depends on the facts. Thus the received wisdom is that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the plays associated with his name and ignores the rationale of this assessment, but the perceived wisdom, in contradicting this view, relies on the surrounding facts to support it's opinion but has no affect in the matter of altering the received wisdom. Clearly opinion is a function of interest. One's opinions are in support of one's interest more than they will be of the facts in issue, and the size of one's interest will give a corresponding importance to any facts that are in support. The loudness of an argument is therefore more a function of the weight of the interest than the weight of the facts.

Henry Percy, London, UK

when he first mentioned that they only allowed him to write an article fortnightly, whilst other writers wrote weekly, i felt a little sorry for the guy. Having read his article in full, i question - on the basis of this article alone - if he should be allowed to write at all.

Marco, bhm, uk

I quite agree that Mr. Pollard should have equal opportunity if his content is of an equally high standard. I suspect this is just his ego talking, sorry I should say yelling. Or maybe it's about salaries?
If the gentleman is dissatisfied, presumably he is free to seek employment elsewhere?

mike cameron, Shenzhen, China