Once again, praise is due to the singer Annie Lennox, for showing how to stand up against unjustified and insulting attacks with dignity.

After she made her statement during a performance at the Grammy Awards ceremony, announcing, “Artists for ceasefire. Peace in the world,” Ms Lennox has been the subject of a certain amount of backlash from apologists for Israel.

I will not publish any of their words here. Suffice it to say that they attacked her motivation for speaking out and tried to undermine her reasons for doing so.

This is her response:

For those who can’t read images, it says:

“The history of discord and dispute between Israel and Palestine stretches back for decades.

“I have always longed to see a peaceful resolution to this tragic and seemingly endless conflict.

“I am neither anti-Semitic nor pro-Hamas.

“My stance is totally from a humanitarian standpoint, which must always be central to circumstances where the value of human life has been reduced to less than zero.

“So far, over two million lives are being destroyed with a rising death toll of over 27,000 and more than 66,000 wounded.

“People have been forced to survive nightmarish conditions, with a severe lack of all essential resources and supplies.

“Hospitals, medical facilities and services are in dire need and barely able to function, while contagious disease runs rampant with starvation levels rising.

“Constant terror, trauma, threat and bombardment accompanies each day.

“This in no way reduces the plight of hostages and their families, who all continue to suffer the unimaginable pain of not knowing the fate or whereabouts of their loved ones.

“I fail to see how any of this has done anything to contribute to a peaceful solution and am heartbroken for everyone who has been victimised by this ever-unfolding tragedy.”

I feel sure that usual bad-faith actors will respond on the social media – if they have not already done so. But I hope that Ms Lennox will not return to this subject.

Her comment is excellent as it stands, and speaks for many of us who want only one result from this conflict: a lasting and mutually-acceptable peace between all the people of the Middle East.

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