ALL Jews need to be ashamed – Peter
A few weeks ago I signed a statement from members of the Jewish community calling for an end to the Israel-Gaza war, and an end to the “humanitarian crisis” unfolding under the Netanyahu-led government.
The statement was meant to be published as a paid advertisement in The Australian Jewish News, but I found out last week the editor was not willing to run it as it was written.
I have avoided signing statements on this war until now. Here in Australia, there has been fierce conflict over how we respond to the horror of Hamas’ terror of October 7 and the subsequent decimation of Gaza and its people. What date to mark the beginning of “it all”? What label for what kind of trauma is being inflicted, and for what reason? I have kept a notebook of alternating news reports of the same event to observe this dissonance at how we describe what we are witnessing.
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