Letter

In response to Rise in antisemitism

What could possibly go wrong?

Letter writer Brian Bycroft has raised a point often ignored when he says: “For better or for worse, people of the Jewish faith have become, for some, almost a proxy for Israel. In these circumstances, people attacking a synagogue may bear no specific hatred of Jews, but see the synagogue as representing Israel.”

Definitely for worse I suggest. That the Star of David, a religious symbol, became the symbol on the national flag of a colonising, self-declared apartheid state, divided by ethnicity/religion, has absolutely muddied the waters. One would have thought the consequences of this choice to be foreseeable. So why did it happen?

— Margaret Callinan from Hawthorn VIC 3122