SIR - Your correspondent, D. Hodgson, falls into the trap the Israeli government’s propaganda machine has spent many years setting all over the world, from the streets of Bingley to the White House, that is linking any criticism of their regime with anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial (T&A, 23 Oct).

The two are not linked and he does George Galloway a disservice to imply that he would think so.

More pertinent questions for him to ask might be how a race that has suffered as the Jews have over millennia can seek to inflict indignity, degradation and inhumanity on another race of people and expect the rest of the world to sit idly by and not comment?

What are his Israeli friends’ views of what Netanyahu and his government are doing to the Palestinian people in their name? These people, indigenous to that part of the world long before the West’s colonial obsession with oil, that have lived their whole lifetime as refugees in the occupied territories, land the Israelis usurped, have a right to self-determination too.

He asks “What would happen if the Israelis had no rockets?”

There would be a genuine, sincere and honest attempt to reach a peaceful, negotiated settlement?

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