Thank you for publishing the article by Aluf Benn, in which he highlighted that the Israeli paper Haaretz has, for more than a year, plainly reported the indiscriminate killing, destruction and human suffering in Gaza and Lebanon and is now being boycotted by the Israeli government (Netanyahu’s boycott of Haaretz won’t stop us reporting the grim truth about Israel’s wars, 26 November).
I am a British Palestinian living in London and the thing that has given me the greatest hope over that period is reading the opinion pieces in Haaretz by Israeli journalists who have spoken out in horror at their government’s actions, at a time when much of the British media has turned a blind eye.
It should go without saying, but as Aluf said, “When you see war crimes, you must speak out … rather than wait until it’s too late to make a difference.”
Alexandra Lucas
London
