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The murder of Israeli peace activist Juliano Mer Khamis (Report, 5 April), whoever the perpetrator, is an attack on all who strive for justice in the Middle East. Juliano, the son of an Israeli-Jewish mother and a Palestinian-Arab father, embodied in his own life both the divisions in Palestine and the hope for coexistence. As he said to an interviewer in 2009, he was "100% Palestinian and 100% Jewish".
Juliano continued the work of his mother Arna, whom he commemorated in the powerful film Arna's Children. This film, and the Freedom Theatre in Jenin which he founded, will maintain the legacy of Juliano and Arna; as will the love and respect which they inspired in those, of whatever ethnic or religious origin, whose lives they touched. I am proud to have been a friend of Juliano and Arna. Those who knew and loved them will not allow this appalling crime to divert us from the struggle for justice, to which they dedicated their lives.
Roland Rance
London
• The murder of Juliano Mer Khamis, actor, director, founder of the Jenin Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, is an assault on art and artists, peacekeepers and the creative lives of young people who live under the constant threat of violence. As American theatre-makers whose work is dedicated to understanding of the other and the self, we condemn this unspeakable act and the policy of targeted assassination which is widely practised by militant non-state actors and by governments.
Karen Malpede, George Bartenieff Theatre Three Collaborative, New York James Nicola, Linda Chapman New York Theatre Workshop
