We awoke on Saturday to the stunning news of an invasion by Hamas into Israel. The images were too much to bear
People light candles during a vigil for Israel in London, on Oct. 9, two days after Hamas fighters launched an unprecedented, multi-front attack on Israel.If you’re wondering how your Jewish friends were doing over the Thanksgiving weekend, I know I shouldn’t really speak for the lot of us, but: not well.people – including a Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair – rounded up and taken hostage. A woman’s naked body being paraded through the streets on the back of a pickup truck.
The known death toll in Israel, as of Monday, stands at more than 800 people. Saturday’s casualties amounted toists as a terrorist organization. The barbaric murder of civilians was being commended as resistance, the cruelty applauded. Not just in Gaza or the West Bank. Here, in Canada. at McMaster University, celebrated the attacks: “Palestine is rising, long live the resistance,” followed by a flower emoji. Meanwhile, at Harvard, more than 30 student organizationssaying Israel was “entirely responsible” for the unfolding violence. Imagine being a Jewish student, professor or employee at these schools.
in the diaspora. Many Canadian Jews support a State of Israel but oppose, even loathe, the current government. The hardline, anti-democratic, right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu has brought
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