Ms Kleiman: as a resident of Byron Shire and a Jew (child of holocaust survivors), I feel it is crucial to correct the record (as the editor has done).
First, Echonetdaily always publishes responses to both Gareth Smith and Fast Buck$ from a selection of Zionist champions.
Have you not seen regular contributions from Vic Alhadeff (Jewish Board of Deputies) and others who represent the Zionist lobby?
Mr Smith’s vehicle is a political statement, not a racist or misogynist one.
It says nothing about Jews, it highlights only the terrible oppression of the Palestinians.
To ban such a vehicle would truly challenge our right to protest all global injustice.
Your error, an error commonly used by Zionists to gain a sympathetic ear is to conflate Jewishness and Zionism or Israeli Government Policy.
People here and overseas are constantly denigrating the land of my birth, Australia, for its treatment of its own indigenous people and Asylum seekers locked indefinitely in detention.
Long live such denigration when a nation does wrong.
Jenny Bush, Wilsons Creek
Well there were Jews like you around during the rise of Nazism who thought Hitlers speeches were great and sought to claim membership as part of the master race. Some of the Jews in Germany at the time also believed that Jews did not deserve their own nation. Most of them were gassed or shot or worked into starvation and left to die in concentration camps.. The fact is the majority of Jews do not share your hand wringing silliness, so that makes you a vocal minority who, in a democracy, has no power at all. In a democracy the majority wins. Better if you put your energy towards supporting your people rather than denigrating them because all you do is undermine the legitimacy of the Jewish State. As for these people you call Palestinians, there are no such people. They have never had a state or a nation. They have never had a government unless you think Imams or Muftis should be seen as legitimate leaders for governing. They are Arabs occupying Jewish land ever since the Muslims invaded circa 600AD. Go study some history. You would be amazed what you might actually learn. Why do you think your parents survived the Holocaust? Because of Zionism. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4503060,00.html