THANK you, Mike Baldwin, for naming your shame, which kept you quiet through 18 months of brutality from the Israeli government in response to the brutality of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. And reasons why, up until now, you have been too terrified to speak out (Letters, May 29).

On Radio Devon, on Sunday, June 1 at 7.10am, I spoke about the statement that a thousand Quakers recently agreed at Britain Yearly Meeting in Friends House, opposite Euston Station, through our own unique, extraordinary process of listening, prayer and deep discernment.

Quakers are the first “church” to say, “we believe that genocide and mass displacement are underway in the actions of the Israel government towards the population of Gaza.”

We hope that other churches will follow.

Is it not time for those churches, currently flying a Ukrainian flag, to add a Palestinian flag?

Laura Conyngham

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