Sir, - The core of Ed Abrahamson’s article seems to be that people are critical of Israel because they are essentially anti-Semitic and he references the Holocaust as part of a continuum of behaviour (“October 7th was a piercing, shrieking alarm call for all Jews”, Opinion, October 9th). To repeat what is often said but ignored by Abrahamson in his piece, the conflict in Israel/Palestine did not begin on October 7th, 2023. Thousands of Palestinians were killed in Gaza before then. Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has reported that in the 10 years before 2023 there were 3,837 Palestinians killed...