Letter

In response to Globalisation of occupation: when genocide becomes an international project

Serving ISIS or IDF: no moral equivalence?

Refaat Ibrahim's article provides all the information and asks all the necessary questions. It should not be necessary to repeat the data nor the commentary.

And yet, we have not only the repugnant usual suspects of the RWNJ political coterie but the conscientiously-excised PM Albanese casting the entire families of the radicalised ISIS expatriate idiots into the pit of Hell.

Fair enough treatment for the patriarchs who took their families into the depths of harm’s way. All 35 of them.

But where is the equivalent condemnation of the more than 600 Australian Jews who joined the IDF?

The estimates of victims of murder, rape, pillage etc. committed by ISIS and the IDF are eerily similar – in fact, the genocide and war crimes figures for the Israeli assault on not just Gaza but also the West Bank and neighbouring areas exceeds the ISIS estimates by a considerable margin.

Genocide and War Crime does not become less of an assault upon humanity when it is committed by Zionist forces than when committed by others.

To broadcast otherwise opinion is either wilful ignorance or glaring racism.

Which of those descriptions best applies to our politicians?

— Richard Llewellyn from Colo Vale