I can no longer stand by while Israeli politicians like Ayelet Shaked condone the deaths of innocent Palestinian women and children (…)

She made me think about my mother’s sister Klara and her three small children who were living in Krakow in 1939 when the Germans invaded. They decided that the Jews – all Jews – were the enemy and had to be eliminated, not least the women and the little snakes they were raising. “Why? Ask them – they started it”, as the Nazis would say if asked.