Recent Notable Reactions to the Israel/Hamas War

“It wasn’t the rallies with ‘Keep the World Clean’ posters and chants of ‘gas the Jews.’ Nor was it the glorification of Hamas paragliders by the Chicago branch of Black Lives Matter or, in New York and London, the tearing down of posters with the faces of Israeli children held hostage by Hamas. Not even the off-the-charts uptick in antisemitic incidents in Germany (240%), the United Kingdom (641%), and the United States (nearly 400%) convinced me.

“It was, rather one of those realizations that so many generations of Jews before me have experienced. A realization that they, like me, surely tried to push out of their minds until the reality became unmistakable.” (Michael Oren, writing in the Oct. 26 issue of The Free Press). Read more of Oren’s essay here.

American Jews make up 2.4% of the US population. And yet, according to the FBI, they have been, for many years, the targets of 60% of hate crimes. It’s much worse now, with mass protests where people chant “from the river to the sea” (i.e., wipe Israel off the face of the earth) and shout threats against Jewish students locked in university rooms. The percentage has got to be over 80% now. And what is the Biden administration doing about it? They’ve asked Kamala to head up the “first ever US National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia”! Click here.

Learn your history, kids. One of the arguments we’ve been hearing about Israel vs. Hamas concerns which group has “ancestral” rights to the disputed land. Here is a definitive history of the argument from a self-described “proud” Arab.

So much is lost – or distorted – in reporting the facts. Click here for a call to journalists reporting on the war.

After reading so much about the Israeli-Hamas war, I’ve been feeling a sort of ennui composed of dread and despair. But when I saw this video, it gave me – somehow – a very different feeling. It is a young boy singing. That is really all it is. But it is beautiful, and I found it soothing and almost inspirational.