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British Artists Lack Compassion for Victims of Hamas Atrocities
(Sunday Times-UK) - Deborah Ross I was utterly floored by the open letter released this week by Artists for Palestine UK with its 2,000 signatories. The letter says "our governments are not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them" and "we demand that our governments end their military and political support for Israel's actions." There was no mention of Hamas. There was no mention of the rape, torture, kidnapping and murder of babies, children, grandparents, young people dancing peacefully at a peace festival. The lack of basic compassion and humanity, that's what was so unbelievably flooring. Is it so difficult to support and feel for Palestinians while also acknowledging the indisputable horror of the Hamas attacks? Isn't it necessary to hold both thoughts if any kind of peaceful coexistence is ever to be achieved? What does it solve, a letter like that? And why would anyone sign it? You can choose to be an anti-Zionist. You can hate Israel with every fiber of your being. But you do have to call such an atrocity out. You have to say it happened. Or do murdered, raped and tortured Jews not matter? What are you saying? Those babies had it coming?