Danny Wakil’s letter (18 October) is so full of lies that it would take me well over letter length limits to reply.
However, I can do no better than quote the Loud Jew collective who say, ‘We have been waiting anxiously to hear from comrades in Palestine, seeking out other anti-Zionist Jews, listening to voices from Gaza. Struggling against the weaponisation of grief against Palestinans. Like you we are watching the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in horror, and furious to see our governments and the Jewish organisations that supposedly speak for us, give the Israeli military a green light. We see the true face of liberal Zionism [sic] now in the tepid statements endlessly shared – the concern only for Jewish lives and the colonial anxiety at the fact that Palestinians dared to fight back against the settler colonial project that has systemically displaced and oppressed them for so long. But in these terrifying times we recommit to our values of liberation and freedom for Palestinians, to a Judaism and Jewishness of justice and solidarity with all oppressed people. We find comfort in standing together, speaking out and showing up. Please join us at some of these upcoming rallies and events.’
I have invited these Jewish friends to stay with us in Byron and hopefully address a public meeting. Danny Wakil, perhaps you can drum up some friends to hear their voices and learn about what it means to be Judaistic rather than Zionist!
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. 
