When Brendan O’Brien again calls for people to support the BDS campaign against Israel, by reinforcing British film director, Ken Loach’s “call on London cinemas not to host the London Israeli Film and Television Festival”, because “it is at least partly promoted and financed by the Israeli government”, he justifies it as an equitable response to the suppression of a proposed Palestinian cultural festival in East Jerusalem in 2009 (Irish Examiner, Letters, June 13).

CULTURAL diversity was celebrated with drum-beat and good food at the National Training and Development Institute in Waterford yesterday.