Holocaust
Sir: Many valid criticisms can be made about Holocaust, but I find Richard Ingrams's comments (9 September) highly offensive. It comes as no surprise to me that he regards it as 'blatant American-Jewish propaganda'. He would. '
But to say that 'it is all quite plainly designed to recommend the Jews to the American public' shows how his mind works. What does he think the Jews are? Some kind of unpalatable commodity that needs to be promoted?
He complains that the programme portrayed the Jews as 'brave and resourceful to a man', and lacking 'any obvious Jewish characteristics.' As a matter of fact, Holocaust didn't portray them like that at all, but I get Mr Ingrams's implication.
The real tenor of his piece is not a serious attempt to dissect the numerous and obvious faults of Holocaust, but an indulgence in snide polemics not unworthy of rabid antisemites. But what can you expect from a part-time television critic who lambasts a programme of which he has seen less than half?
George Markstein 204 Park West, London W2
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