SIR – Mr A Michael Murphy (Letters, June 24) ignores the facts in my letter about Israeli piracy on the high seas to attack my personal credibility.

Well, if he is going to do this, he needs to do his homework, because my opposition to all sorts of terrorism is well-known and documented.

My family was firmly anti-fascist at a time when Tory and Labour leaders were denouncing revelations about the Nazi death camps as Red propaganda.

When Britain and USA were cosying up to Saddam Hussein, I was marching on the streets denouncing his persecution of his own people, and only this weekend I participated in a service at my church commemorating the deaths of hundreds killed in Lahore, as well as the victims of the West Cumbria killing, the attack on the Gaza aid flotilla, and other violations of our humanity.

Mr Murphy could, perhaps, accuse me of inconsistency, since until I went there on business in 1968 and observed the institutional racism towards Israeli Palestinians I was a passionate supporter of the state of Israel.

How could I have been so blind to the reality of Israeli fascism?

Karl Dallas, Church Green, Bradford