David Heilpern’s editorial (Echo 17/12) should have had a ‘mea culpa’.
His past Echo posts include poo-pooing the tens of thousands of Israeli Muslims who have joined the Israeli armed forces, and who fought and died alongside their Jewish compatriots in Gaza, (bolstered by another 1,500 Israeli Muslims who voluntarily joined the Israeli army post the Hamas massacre of both Israeli Jews and Muslims).
He defended calling out the Hamas Charter quote for an Islamist armed takeover of Israel ‘From the River to the Sea’.
He dissed the federal government’s antisemitism report, but made no comment on the Islamaphobia report.
He has been running the Greens anti-Israel line, where their two-faced Greens deputy leader, repeatedly asked by a reporter, repeatedly refused to condemn Hamas, and marched after the Hamas massacre with those that support the Hamas attack, but posted her fake condolences for the Bondi massacre.
And where the Greens, including the Byron Greens Councillors, boycotted the recent Mayors Conference on Antisemitism on the Gold Coast (attended by 250 mayors and councillors and human rights organisations).
And where the elected Greens member in Newtown said exactly the same thing, (using a Nazi allegory of Jewish tentacles controlling the world), as the 60 Neo Nazis calling for ‘the abolishment of the Jewish lobby’. Heilpern’s editorial says ‘its not time to…’, as if his, and the Greens, actions on Israel were separate to, and hadn’t inflamed, the anti-Jewish toxic situation that resulted in Bondi. David Heilpern and the Greens, there’s blood on your hands.
You and the Greens have consistently ignored that the same Islamist hatred of Jews that has resulted in the Bondi massacre, is a significant part of fuelling the massacres of Jews in Isreal for the last 77 years.
Perhaps Mr Heilpern, in the new year, while you continue to condemn Israel to the same violence, significantly driven by the same ideology as Bondi, you may consider facilitating conciliation for, at least, the elimination of the increasing hostility to Byron’s Jewish residents and business’s, and for a safe and peaceful Australia.
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. 
