Letter

In response to 'Never again' not only for Jews, but for Palestinians and all humanity

A timely wake-up call

What a pleasure to read editor-in-chief John Menadue’s 27 April ANU lecture on the question of Palestine and Israel’s criminal (genocidal) measures against it,

Such is the dominance exercised over global media by pro-Israel forces that it must call for courage on Menadue’s part to be so forthright in insisting on the attribution of major criminal responsibility.

Appropriate to the title “Pearls and Irritations”, Menadue offers a pearl. That in doing so he has irritated many is plain from the response to date.

Furthermore, however shocking, Menadue is on the side of international law. The International Criminal Court has already issued arrest warrants for Israel’s leaders, including Benjamin Netanyahu. If Australia’s leaders continue to turn a blind eye to the contemporary genocide, the same can be expected in due course for them too.

— Gavan McCormack from Canberra, ACT