Letter

In response to Weaponisation of ‘antisemitism’ hides primitive savagery of Palestinian genocide

Hijack of the term holocaust

The Holocaust was, and is, a horrendous part of world history and the Jews carried a disproportionately high burden of the atrocities, but they weren’t the only people targeted.

I am not going to begin naming atrocities for fear of missing even one, and all should be called out.

Like all wars, atrocities were carried out by both sides and until we acknowledge all the atrocities in all the wars, history will continue to repeat itself as it is now in Gaza.

While defence is a major talking point in elections, while we train people to kill and put submarines ahead of homelessness, we won’t have any difficulty finding excuses for yet another holocaust, yet another killing, yet another big bomb, yet another tyrant to press the button.

— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA