Danielle Haliczer, Ocean Shores
In 2008, as a result of Complex Post Traumatic Stress from this lifetime, and inter-generational trauma in my body memory, I forgot my name and couldn’t even see.
I live in Ocean Shores and I am paternally Jewish. An unknown Palestinian man was there for me. He and the ginger-haired guy who was his friend took me in, they called the ambulance, they found me a safe place at a Tweed Heads clinic for traumatised people. I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart.
My grandfather, who I didn’t get to know, was part of a great and gross inhumanity carried out on the Jewish peoples of Europe for the most part – he and my grandmother moved onto your land. We used to live in peace with you long ago.
I wish for those people who can, in Palestine, to reconcile with you, this is my deepest wish as I don’t want to see anyone have to turn into a monster to their fellow man. I know of those Jews who are in Palestine who also desperately want reconciliation with the Palestinians.
For all those Jews who posed the question in movies and in your arts and philosophies – if you could go back in time and stop Hitler – what would you give?
Please don’t feed the poison of the Zionist apartheid regime of the state of Israel, a state that I do not recognise.
Please support anything that champions reconciliation, not just in word but in deed. Support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and you will help those in Palestine [including those] who are Jews who want reconciliation.
I support the BDS campaign, and you can accuse me of anti-Semitism but I am not ashamed of my Jewish heritage. I well know what the Jews as a people have been through, and over a long time; but racism is no answer to racism, much less degradation of Palestinians as they are expropriated from their lands and exploited.
I dedicate this to the unknown Palestinian man who got me that ambulance ride in 2008. I stand in solidarity with you and with everyone who wants to take a stand against this gross injustice.
For my grandmother especially, I love you, Liselotte Huaser Ben Youssef Hall Haliczer, who made her reconciliation with her German school friends at 78 – and her parents were murdered in Auschwitz.
All the way with BDS campaign! I also want reconciliation with the Aboriginal peoples of Australia in the same vein.
Do not buy from the occupied territories, support reconciliation abroad and at home.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
