Please speak up against the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza

I am urging my readers to speak up about the ongoing, indiscriminate and entirely disproportionate bombing of Gaza by the Israeli Defense Force in retaliation to the Hamas attacks on 7th October. 

The ongoing attacks by the IDF are what is known as collective punishment, an action which is considered internationally to be a war crime.

Opposing these attacks does not mean that you support Hamas or its terrorist attacks; nor that you are in any way anti-Semitic, anti-Israeli or against the civilian population of the State of Israel.

I implore you to speak to your elected representative in your own state. As a British national, I have emailed a letter to my local MP, Lloyd Russell-Moyle. A template for a letter to your MP can be found here. You can send your letter through the form on the site, or email or indeed post it your MP directly. There are other templates available, and for people in other countries, there will be similar templates and methods of contacting your local representative in order that they raise the issue with your national government. 

I would encourage you to personalise the letter as much as you can while maintaining the factual basis and message, in order that it is considered thoroughly; multiple identical letters are more likely to be ignored.