The below statement, I found very powerful:
Kids in PJ's, as young as 3 years old, who were held for 50 awful days by HAMAS terrorists.
Look at them – and remember the demonstrations of hate against them, the deniers of atrocities who peeled and teared their posters in New York, London and Paris.
We will never forget. pic.twitter.com/fE34Vbm5HC— Ksenia Svetlova كسنيا سفطلوفا (@KseniaSvetlova) November 25, 2023
• My impression is, the person who is quoted below speaks for a great many:
October 7 survivor just told me: “I used to believe in peace, but I don’t anymore. I used to trust Arabs, but I don’t anymore. A guy named Khaleel lived in our village for 30 years. We called him our brother. He slept in our homes. He ended up drawing a map of our homes in the…
— Luai Ahmed (@JustLuai) November 22, 2023
• Michal Herzog is the first lady of Israel — a lawyer who is married to Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel. She wrote a column headed “The Silence From International Bodies Over Hamas’ Mass Rapes Is a Betrayal of All Women.” For that column, go here.
• A person can say a lot with a cartoon:
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 21, 2023
• Our ambassador to the U.N. is telling it straight — which is gratifying:
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield tore into the other Security Council members for minimizing Hamas's Oct 7 atrocities.@USAmbUN: "Many members of this council seem to have forgotten or attempted to erase the horrors of that day. And many still cannot… pic.twitter.com/8BZ5tyVCq4
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 22, 2023
• Immediately after being named foreign minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron went to Ukraine. Then he went to Israel. Britain’s solidarity with those two peoples is laudable.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron waked through Kibbutz Be'eri and heard about the devastating Oct 7 attack:
"I wanted to come here myself to see the horrific nature of the attacks that you suffered on October 7th — and they are absolutely horrific…I've heard things and… pic.twitter.com/3XaXGuCK1P
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) November 23, 2023
• A retired Irish diplomat made some news. (One article is here.) Niall Holohan pointed out that Ireland has a tiny Jewish community: about 2,500 people, constituting 0.05 percent of the population. This fact, he said, “has given us a freer hand to take what we consider a more principled position.”
Ah. Fewer yakking Jews to be nagged by.
• A news story: “Authorities launch probe after at least 85 Jewish graves damaged in Belgian cemetery.” For the article, go here. You know what they say: “Anti-Zionism, not antisemitism.”
• Speaking of which:
A kosher restaurant had its windows smashed in midtown Manhattan. 2023. Not 1938. pic.twitter.com/v5pOTAePOz
— Daniella Greenbaum Davis (@DGreenbaum) November 26, 2023
• Horseshoe City:
.@SusanSarandon retweeting a far right antisemite who is posting a lie is where we are. pic.twitter.com/iVIKdjO7yf
— Ron Kampeas (@kampeas) November 19, 2023
• About the beautiful Ms. Sarandon, and the presidential candidate Cornel West, Haviv Rettig Gur is correct, I believe:
She said Jewish fear of rising antisemitism is a valuable lesson Jews need to learn about what it feels like to be Muslim.
She downplayed antisemitism while pitting Muslims against Jews.
She was the opposite of compassion or courage.
In your blindness, you laud her bigotry. https://t.co/Sum3D9qTWg
— Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur) November 22, 2023
• Every day, from a thousand different sources, you can hear that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians. I thought Tom Nichols had it just right:
The "genocide" debate here is activists trying to seize the high ground after Hamas's hideous acts. Their hope, after an assault of such barbarity, is to label the response "genocidal" and hope that people chase that shiny lure instead of remembering why this war happened at all.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 24, 2023
• Let me urge the reading of a column by Rebecca Massel, a student at Columbia University: “Antisemitism Is Infecting My College Campus — And So Many Others.” Terribly important.
• Here is a headline to make a person gulp — it is a quote: “Everyone hates you and wishes you dead.” The subheading reads, “Eight students from the University of Connecticut talk about what it’s like attending university at a time when antisemitism has moved from a whisper to a shout.” That article is here.
Good ol’ UConn? Home of the Huskies? Those perennial basketball champions?
The thing about eternal vigilance is that you have to be eternally vigilant — everywhere, apparently.
• One more thing, for now: “New York City Teacher Who Attended Pro-Israel Rally Hid in Locked Room as Students Rioted.” That ought to chill the blood of every American. Or rather: boil the blood of every American. We must say, somehow, collectively, “Not in our country. Not in this land of E pluribus unum. Just: no.”