You are absolutely correct. It IS always worth speaking out because usually you will find that you have given either clarity or courage to at least one other who didn’t have the nerve to say what you did. Or sometimes you will never know the impact of your words, or you will hear about it after a long time has passed. But it is always right to speak out against what is so clearly an immense wrong at least or a deliberate, planned and calculated evil as is the case in the genocide currently being carried out by the israeli regime in Gaza. I personally have been greatly encouraged by the thousands of Jewish people around the world who speak out against this evil, although I didn’t need their opinion to know right from wrong. The more people are cowed by the threat of personal loss or persecution for speaking out, the more power they are giving away to those who are in the wrong. And it is not a mistake that I have given ‘israeli’ a lower case letter; when that state begins to behave like a civilised one then I will give it the honour of a capital letter.
You are absolutely correct. It IS always worth speaking out because usually you will find that you have given either clarity or courage to at least one other who didn’t have the nerve to say what you did. Or sometimes you will never know the impact of your words, or you will hear about it after a long time has passed. But it is always right to speak out against what is so clearly an immense wrong at least or a deliberate, planned and calculated evil as is the case in the genocide currently being carried out by the israeli regime in Gaza. I personally have been greatly encouraged by the thousands of Jewish people around the world who speak out against this evil, although I didn’t need their opinion to know right from wrong. The more people are cowed by the threat of personal loss or persecution for speaking out, the more power they are giving away to those who are in the wrong. And it is not a mistake that I have given ‘israeli’ a lower case letter; when that state begins to behave like a civilised one then I will give it the honour of a capital letter.
An important message, Michael. Thank you.
appreciate you Holly <3
Thank you for this. It is heartrending to read about starving children.
When will the US reach the point where it forces Israel to stop the war in Gaza?
Thank you for this. I need to hear it.