Nine months before Antony Loewenstein [3]'s book on the conflict in Israel and Palestine, Voices of Reason, has even been published, it's under attack. Loewenstein, who is a progressive member of the Jewish community and a Sydney-based freelance journalist, unsuccessfully made several attempts to ask the right-wing Australian Labor Party parliamentarian and Jewish community member, Michael Danby, some questions [4] on the issue. Subsequently Danby wrote a letter [5] to the editor of Australian Jewish News, arguing that Loewenstein's publisher, Melbourne University Press (MUP), "should drop this whole disgusting project. If they proceed, I urge the Australian Jewish community, and particularly the Australian Jewish News, to treat it with dignified silence." In response, MUP CEO Louise Adler wrote [6] that "condemning a book prior to publication is appalling ... Danby’s proposal is inimical to the central Jewish values of tolerance and open debate."