Dear Editor,

HARLOW Labour MP Chris Vince remains silent on the massacres taking place in the Gaza Strip, and now the Labour government that he supports is attempting to silence people protesting against those massacres.

It has been announced that the government will proscribe Palestine Action, a direct action group that sprayed red paint on two Royal Air Force aircraft in protest at British military assistance to the Israel Defence Forces.

Hungry people are being killed while queueing for food in the Gaza Strip, as the RAF conducts reconnaissance flights on behalf of the Israel Defence Forces and Israeli troops are being trained by the UK on British soil.

International experts on genocide – including two Israeli scholars, Shmuel Lederman and Raz Segal – are agreed that the State of Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The proposed ban on Palestine Action would mean that people could be imprisoned simply for expressing approval of an organisation that protests against genocide, while Raytheon UK (based in Harlow) and other British companies profit from supplying the State of Israel with the means to commit genocide.

Perhaps some people would not feel the need to spray paint on warplanes if MPs such as Chris Vince did not refuse to answer letters from their constituents about the horrors taking place in the Gaza Strip.

Any Labour MP or Labour Councillor who does not publicly condemn the crimes taking place in the Gaza Strip and try to do something to stop them would be a stinking hypocrite were they to laud the bravery of people such as Nelson Mandela or attend commemorations of the genocides of years gone by.

When dwelling on the great injustices of the past some of us ponder the question “what would I have done?” Look in the mirror and ask yourself “what am I doing today to try to stop the genocide taking place in the Gaza Strip?”

Yours sincerely

John Wake