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This implies we should go support the people who have historically supported the Nazi party in Germany (Zionist Federation of Germany with the The Haavara Agreement, as well as their collaboration and in killing Jews in Nazi Germany, remembering also their deal to deport Jews to Palestine), or the famously totally not antisemitic far right neo nazis (Donald Trump, Proud Boys, etc) currently supporting Israel and saying it "should" be the only place for Jews. If these groups, who have been notorious for desecrating Jewish graves and synagogues long before oct 7, spraying graffiti of swastikas, and harassing Jews, are now pro Israel (evidently again as said groups have vouched support for Israel and attacked activists for ceasefire continually over the past years, should we, as people who do not want to accept any intolerance from either anti Jewish OR anti Palestinian sentiment, just ignore all of this?

If supporting Israel means standing side by side with people raising their hand in a seig hail and saying "death to Jews" and "death to Arabs"? Yeah, no, I don't think the enemy here is a race or even the trauma from years of occupation that shows as defensiveness and hatred, but as always, the western Nazis who pit and have always pitted racial groups against each other. And I think I'd rather die both pro Palestinian and pro Jewish rather than live as a nazi. And evidently it is established Neo Nazi organisations supporting Israel and I will not stand besides those antisemitic, racists motherfuckers and no amount of "some of the nazis might be Jewish and hate Jews" will make me rethink that. There were gay Nazis, but they still killed us for being queer. Likewise, I don't stand with any other group who bootlick to their oppressors and side with those oppressors.

Like, there is just nothing that can be said to convince people to join the same side that are reusing nazi slogans, signal and symbols, I'm sorry but no. Many many Jews, queers and people who have any trauma around nazis fucking up their lives don't want that and calling them "the wrong kind of Jew" or "self hating" is just wrong. Jews can hate nazis, and if a nazi says "you should support Israel" damn right I'll question that.

I also want to add a bit extra in relation to people who try to use this movement for antisemitism, and those who do actually have trauma from Israeli occupation. The former are kicked out, ostracized and shunned. They are not part of this movement and, more often than not, hate Palestinians and Arabs as well. Using this movement is a convenient way for them to encite hatred towards both Arabs and Jews, they are racists fuckwits and we, those who want freedom and equality for both Jews and Palestinians, do not recognise these fuckers as much as they hold hatred and clash with our own groups.

The latter are those who, much like many people have been led to believe thanks to propaganda, that Jewishness and Zionism are one and the same when they're very different. Zionism, while originating from Jewish groups intertwining into the French academic community, it is a political movement built out of western socialism and feudalist nationalism. The genuine hope of return is a separate Jewish concept that, while has been misused to justify Political Zionism, is its own concept that has existed long before the influence of French militarism and western colonialist ideologies. Said people see the indiscriminate slaughter in Palestine and even towards other Jews and then blame Jews, thanks to that conflation. The defending of that lie only further endangers Jewish communities and risks the rise of antisemitism. Israel has, despite being warned of this, capitalised further on this and incited violence against Jews.

Literally the opposite of what actually happens but ok sure, let's assume all pro Palestinians (including Jewish Palestinians

So, I'm really curious what you mean by that, because the only Jews who can be described as Palestinian in any meaningful sense are either in Israel (the Old Yishuv and its descendants), or settlers in the West Bank, who you'll be shocked to hear are not generally pro-Palestinian. For a while there was also the category of hostages in Gaza, but, b"h, that is currently no longer a category. Like, the only self-described Jewish Palestinian I know is @aqlstar.

and antizionist Jews) have said what you just put in their mouth. Lets also assume that any and all Palestinians (again, including Jewish Palestinians) who hate Israeli Jews for the treatment of them are wrong while Jews who hate Germans for their cruelty are right. Let's assume we support, unconditionally, all Zionists in the past and present since apparently you see Zionism as Representing Jewish safety.

Okay, so these are some really interesting assumptions, but I will accept that I have made weirder and less accurate premises. Sure. Sake of argument.

This implies we should go support the people who have historically supported the Nazi party in Germany (Zionist Federation of Germany with the The Haavara Agreement, as well as their collaboration and in killing Jews in Nazi Germany, remembering also their deal to deport Jews to Palestine),

Okay.

Let's talk about that.

At the end of the day, Jews who were not otherwise going to live, lived. Specifically, sixty thousand Jews lived.

We had no one else who was willing to defend us. Moreover, Weimar-era Germany had been fairly good for Jews, anti-immigrant and antisemitic sentiments were rising in the US and globally, and so it would be very dangerous to advocate for more Jewish immigration.

It's also worth noting that in this phase, Hitler's plans were more flexible, and he was still okay with the idea of "only" deporting all the Jews. Death camps were still years down the line, and it was cancelled in 1939, after the invasion of Poland.

Books about Allied and world governments and refugees have titles like none is too many (Canada), no haven for the oppressed (United States), while six million died (United States), the lifeboat is full (Switzerland), under his very windows (the Vatican/the Catholic church), the jews were expendable ("free world"), welcoming the undesirables (Brazil) why we watched (Europe and America) the jews should keep quiet (United States) barred (United States) et cetera, et cetera.

Was it a deal with the devil? Yes, absolutely.

But it was a deal that saved lives. And yes, dignity was hurt, and yes, it provided funds to the Nazis, and yes and yes and yes, but we were in a very, very, hard place, and if no one will help you fight the devil, sometimes you have to make a deal. and it's really fucking hypocritical to sit and criticize them for doing their best to save jewish lives.

meanwhile, the leader of the palestinian arabs, haj amin al-husseini, was schmoozing -- no, actually, he wasn't, he doesn't deserve the word -- with hitler for no reason other than a shared hatred of jews and the british

or the famously totally not antisemitic far right neo nazis (Donald Trump, Proud Boys, etc) currently supporting Israel and saying it "should" be the only place for Jews.

Right. So. Er. About those proud boys...

No, seriously:

I really don't think this is helping your argument.

real horseshoe theory here:

anyway. yeah.

If these groups, who have been notorious for desecrating Jewish graves and synagogues long before oct 7, spraying graffiti of swastikas, and harassing Jews, are now pro Israel (evidently again as said groups have vouched support for Israel and attacked activists for ceasefire continually over the past years,

Trump has not desacreted Jewish graves and synagogues, his allies have -- and they aren't fond of Israel. That's how we wind up in the kinda funny position of David Duke, a far-right neo-Nazi, endorsing Jill Stein, a lefty Jew, for president over her stance on Gaza.

should we, as people who do not want to accept any intolerance from either anti Jewish OR anti Palestinian sentiment, just ignore all of this?

No, we shouldn't, but. Uh. That. Kinda. Doesn't seem to really be happening at any major scale? The "Neo-Nazis supporting Israel", I mean

If supporting Israel means standing side by side with people raising their hand in a seig hail and saying "death to Jews" and "death to Arabs"?

Name one incident of that happening, please.

Yeah, no, I don't think the enemy here is a race or even the trauma from years of occupation that shows as defensiveness and hatred, but as always, the western Nazis who pit and have always pitted racial groups against each other. And I think I'd rather die both pro Palestinian and pro Jewish rather than live as a nazi.

One out of three ain't bad! (I don't know if you're a Nazi, but your seeming support of Hamas disqualifies you from being pro-Palestinian IMO, and as for "pro Jewish". Well.)

And evidently it is established Neo Nazi organisations supporting Israel and I will not stand besides those antisemitic, racists motherfuckers and no amount of "some of the nazis might be Jewish and hate Jews" will make me rethink that. There were gay Nazis, but they still killed us for being queer. Likewise, I don't stand with any other group who bootlick to their oppressors and side with those oppressors.

I have bad news for you about JVP...

(to be fair, they're majority Gentile, I think.)

>Like, there is just nothing that can be said to convince people to join the same side that are reusing nazi slogans, signal and symbols, I'm sorry but no. Many many Jews, queers and people who have any trauma around nazis fucking up their lives don't want that and calling them "the wrong kind of Jew" or "self hating" is just wrong. Jews can hate nazis, and if a nazi says "you should support Israel" damn right I'll question that.

And if a Nazi says "you shouldn't support Israel"?

I also want to add a bit extra in relation to people who try to use this movement for antisemitism, and those who do actually have trauma from Israeli occupation. The former are kicked out, ostracized and shunned. They are not part of this movement and, more often than not, hate Palestinians and Arabs as well.

Hang on a second.

Holy fuck your movement is bad at "kick[ing] out, ostraciz[ing] and shunn[ing]"

Quoth past me!

Have multiple (2009) peer-reviewed (2006) studies (see study 2; 2022) shown (2015) that (2007) antisemitism (2012) and (2020) anti-Israelism/antizionism [“In fact, anti-Israel attitudes are the strongest sole determinant of antisemitism when compared with political preferences, religion, place of birth, age, education and violent tendencies.”; 2020] (which are not the same thing) are (2024) closely (2016) associated (2012)? Also yes. Did Daniel Allington and David Hirsh write that “So many experimental and survey-based studies have found a correlation between negative attitudes towards Jews and negative attitudes towards Israel that this may be considered one of the most solidly established facts of political psychology” (The AzAs (Antizionist Antisemitism) Scale: Measuring Antisemitism as Expressed in Relation to Israel and Its Supporters, 2019)? Yes. Did I not cite that in my links above? Yeah.

But actually, fuck those studies.

You are a demonstration of the non-ostracization of avowed antisemites.

You follow Spaceshipspeaking999.

Here is a quote from them:

That's not ostracization. That's the opposite of ostracization.

Maybe you don't know! But if the movement really does ostracize people like that, how come it didn't catch that? How come you didn't know?

(At a certain point, when they say "Zionists are the Nazis of Palestine!!" one wonders if they intended it as a compliment.)

Using this movement is a convenient way for them to encite hatred towards both Arabs and Jews, they are racists fuckwits and we, those who want freedom and equality for both Jews and Palestinians, do not recognise these fuckers as much as they hold hatred and clash with our own groups.

Okay, so, uh, quick question, why do you follow spaceshipspeaking999 then?

The latter are those who, much like many people have been led to believe thanks to propaganda, that Jewishness and Zionism are one and the same when they're very different. Zionism, while originating from Jewish groups intertwining into the French academic community, it is a political movement built out of western socialism and feudalist nationalism. The genuine hope of return is a separate Jewish concept that, while has been misused to justify Political Zionism, is its own concept that has existed long before the influence of French militarism and western colonialist ideologies. Said people see the indiscriminate slaughter in Palestine and even towards other Jews

CITATION. FUCKING. NEEDED.

and then blame Jews, thanks to that conflation. The defending of that lie only further endangers Jewish communities and risks the rise of antisemitism. Israel has, despite being warned of this, capitalised further on this and incited violence against Jews.

CITATION. FUCKING. NEEDED.

How so? by its very existence? hot take: you shouldn't be provokable into committing a hate crime, and if you are then you were going to commit one anyway.

Despite all of this, all evidence, and all logic, even if we assume that all Jewish and Arab Palestinians somehow are to be blamed more than any far right Nazi standing by your side for 1939,

hitler took power in 1933 but who's counting

it cannot be denied that the obsession of race being the determining factor of ones morality is a dangerous standpoint to base your stance on. If this really is an argument of "pro Arab or pro Jew" with no allowance to accept all races as equal, then there is no argument to be had; if you think anyone born as any one race or ethnicity is to blame then your own identity cannot claim innocence over the inherent racism of that stance, both towards Arabs and the racist assumption of othering Jews, even and especially as a Jew.

...that's not zionism? this is a great argument against somethin completely separate? antizionists do not form an ethnic group? and it's not even really expressing hatred per se?

This is a pathetic response and an incredibly telling one.

This is just another place and group that has no problem reaping the benefits of the hard work Jews do, but every problem with the Jew itself.

We are allowed to exist in a limited way and so as we are useful. Once that is done we may not.

Once we have been wrung dry we are discarded.

Posting the whole text of the article so people don't have to join a mailing list, and putting in bold the responses from Charrington and her DSA defenders that I thought were most absurd and hypocritical.

An activist that two politicians from the Democratic Socialists of America helped elevate to a leadership position in the Brooklyn Democratic Party on Tuesday posted a vitriolic antisemitic screed to her Instagram last year — declaring as “the truth” a notorious work beloved by Adolf Hitler that describes a Jewish world conspiracy.

Carmella Charrington was part of an army of left-wing insurgents who captured office on Tuesday: in her case, the role of district leader in the Brooklyn Democratic Party, an unpaid but important position that elects the party’s influential chairperson and plays a significant role in nominating judges and filling jobs at the city Board of Elections. 

Although the DSA itself did not formally endorse Charrington for the post, two of its most important local figures campaigned with her and helped her make the ballot: state Sen. Jabari Brisport and state Assembly candidate Eon Huntley, who defeated an incumbent lawmaker in a closely watched race earlier this week. 

Charrington’s candidacy was part of a broader campaign to depose the present centrist leadership of the official party organization. But in November 2025, Charrington shared a video to her Instagram account — which features various photos and videos of herself at Brisport and Huntley’s joint campaign headquarters — promoting the “hidden history” in industrialist Henry Ford’s notorious 1920s series of conspiracy pamphlets, The International Jew.

“This better be the topic at the table#dad #deedtheft #ceo #love #ericadams #brooklyn #lovers #lovers #corruption #diddy #nyc ##cardio#cardib #trump,” Charrington captioned the since-deleted post, adding in the comments: “The only way to change is understanding the truth!”

The video itself is a summary and update of Ford’s century-old conspiracy theories, presented by a wellness influencer.

“You find out who owns all the social media, and then who also owns the tobacco industry, the cotton industry, the banking industry, the theater, the newspaper, the radio, and then we can clearly see who owns the government as well,” the speaker in the video says. “This is why in school things like reading the Bible, praying, celebrating Christmas, got to get rid of all that. Then it gets deeper when you find out who brought in all the liquor and all the drugs, and also made people into drunks during the Great Depression, because the same people caused the Great Depression.”

The video further asserts that Jewish people created plastic surgery to “blend in,” “brought the slaves” to America, established the gay rights movement and plotted the infamous 1921 massacre of Black residents of Tulsa, Okla. It asserts Jewish people are “always changing their names” and variously call themselves Zionists, Communists and Bolsheviks.

It then pivots to the issue that propelled Tuesday’s socialist sweep: Israel.

“It gets deeper when you talk about Palestine and the takeover of that with the Rothschilds, same people, and the whole Palestine thing connects back to the Rothschilds, who are the bankers, who then control everything, including the schools,” the speaker continues. “All the media and the newspapers and the radios are owned by a small group of people who control everything.” 

The video concludes with an image promoting the Swedish neo-Nazi film series “Europa: The Last Battle,” the conspiracy tome The Curse of Canaan: A Demonology of History, the Holocaust denial tracts of Fred Leuchter and the anti-Israel pamphlet Zionism: The Terrible Secret of the Cold War.

Reached by Jewish Insider, Charrington maintained that she was not prejudiced, but also insisted the video “was some facts.” She repeatedly told the reporter to “get your rabbi,” as she intended to hold a future “roundtable” on what she called a “bullying community.”

“There’s so much harm that your community has done to me,” she said. “It’s a problem in our community and it needs to be addressed.”

Charrington rose to prominence as part of a legal fight over possession of her family’s brownstone in the historically Black but fast-gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. She alleged in numerous media appearances that she was the victim of deed theft, a form of fraud, but New York state Attorney General Letitia James’ office determined it was a complicated but legal inheritance dispute.

In one of several phone calls with JI, Charrington railed against Jewish investors she accused of gaining access to her home and a Jewish judge who sentenced her to six days on Rikers Island for contempt of court.

Helping to promote her cause has been another leading DSA official: New York City Councilman Chi Ossé, who was arrested demonstrating outside the home in April. The incident inspired New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to create a new Office of Deed Theft Prevention.

Ossé, for his part, stressed in a phone conversation with JI that he had not endorsed Charrington for district leader and was unfamiliar with her posting history.

“We condemn this antisemitism and bigotry in the harshest possible terms,” Ossé said in a subsequent written statement to JI. “There is no room for this kind of hate in Brooklyn. I reject it completely.” 

Brisport similarly said he was unaware of Charrington’s views but repeatedly refused to answer whether he would have supported her for party office had he seen the video she shared — or if he considered such beliefs disqualifying for a person to hold power in the Democratic Party. Huntley, the nominee for Assembly, did not respond to repeated calls or emails.

However, the two DSA leaders subsequently sent a joint statement denouncing the content of the video, and harping on the right-wing elements of its message.

“The antisemitic post that Carmella shared has no place in our movement. This incident illustrates exactly what antisemitism does — it misdirects the justified anger of working people and oppressed communities away from systems of power and onto Jews,” they wrote. “We are committed to working with all constituents and fellow electeds alike to unlearn and dismantle these deeply antisemitic, anti-LGBT, and anti-communist narratives which hurt and divide our communities.”

JI also contacted Mark Hanna, a Mamdani ally and Brooklyn district leader who served as election attorney for the insurgent slate on which Charrington ran. Hanna is also the treasurer of American Priorities PAC, a committee dedicated to combatting the influence of AIPAC and uplifting anti-Israel candidates.

“Any kind of antisemitism or Islamophobia or hatred I’m not going to be supportive of,” Hanna said in an initial phone conversation.

After JI sent him the video, he wrote back that he hoped the post “can be a teachable moment.”

“I will have to speak with her about it,” he wrote. “I want to work with Carmella on issues related to deed theft and the other concerns she has in her community, and I think calling her in to learn and ensure inclusivity, rather than calling out for a repost, will be more fruitful.”

“You find out who owns all the social media, and then who also owns the tobacco industry, the cotton industry, the banking industry, the theater, the newspaper, the radio, and then we can clearly see who owns the government as well,” the speaker in the video says. “This is why in school things like reading the Bible, praying, celebrating Christmas, got to get rid of all that. Then it gets deeper when you find out who brought in all the liquor and all the drugs, and also made people into drunks during the Great Depression, because the same people caused the Great Depression.” The video further asserts that Jewish people created plastic surgery to “blend in,” “brought the slaves” to America, established the gay rights movement and plotted the infamous 1921 massacre of Black residents of Tulsa, Okla. It asserts Jewish people are “always changing their names” and variously call themselves Zionists, Communists and Bolsheviks."

The person who made the video, whom Charrington shared from, is Matt Roeske. He is a wellness influencer and grifter. He has no education whatsoever on food, medicine, biology, health, nutrition, etc, etc... He's a former "eSport" player according to his multitude of podcast appearances, and is entirely "self-taught". Like any grifter who believes in the vast multitude of conspiracies about science, medicine, and food, he inevitably linked and blamed all of his unfounded and conspirational beliefs to Jews. This is a man who openly has stated he doesn't believe viruses exist and claims they don't either, thereby promoting harmful misinformation through his professional IG account for his company. And, like all pseudoscience grifters trying to sell you their product he has this on his site -

"This content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease."

Whether or not he actually believes the claims about his product are irrelevant. He's trying to sell you bullshit. I've been around long enough and actively combatted pseudoscience grifters like this that they always fall back on "ole reliable" and that's to blame Jews for every illness, sickness, and malfeasance that happens to them, their customers, and their audience. The fact that Charrington shared this video also means she is within the purview of the Wellness Industry and likely consumes their misinformation and pseudoscience videos. That is not someone taking a grounded and evidence based approach, that is someone who actively pursues vibes based and conspiracy based reasoning because it fits their view. Whether or not she was frog boiled into this or Avocado-Wolfed (as we refer to it in the science community) is of little merit now. She's openly an antisemite who has shared from conspiracy pseudoscience Wellness grifters.

I can’t upload this video, but it’s a beautiful tribute to the memories of some of those we’ve lost.

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A thousand days.

A thousand days since lives were shattered in a single morning.

No parent should have to bury a child. No child should have to bury a parent. No husband or wife should have to say goodbye to the person they planned a lifetime with. No brother, sister, partner, or fiancé should have to stand beside a grave instead of beside the person they love.

And no family should have to carry the unbearable weight of knowing that their loved one was not only taken from them, but was murdered with unimaginable brutality.

Sudden loss is devastating enough. But how do you begin to live with the knowledge of what they endured? How do you make sense of cruelty so profound that it defies human understanding?

Some wounds never heal because the mind cannot reconcile what the heart knows happened.

For a thousand days, these families have woken every morning carrying not only unimaginable grief, but also the burden of unanswered questions.

No bereaved family should have to spend a thousand days pleading for the truth. Seeking the truth is not politics. It is not revenge. It is the most basic dignity owed to those who were murdered, to those who were taken hostage and never came home, and to every family left behind. Their lives changed forever on October 7. For the families of those murdered, and for the families of the hostages who were killed in captivity, time did not heal. It never will. It simply kept moving while they remained trapped in the moment that stole everything from them.

A thousand days is long enough. Long enough to pursue the truth. Long enough to take responsibility. Long enough to honour those who were murdered not only with remembrance, but with action. Because remembrance without accountability is incomplete. And those we lost deserve both.

Israel was marking 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre on Thursday, with somber memorials, marches and protests planned across the country.

The October Council, a group of bereaved families, October 7 survivors and some former hostages, was organizing a full day of events to mark the occasion throughout the day.

The organization — which is sharply critical of the current government’s failure to prevent the Hamas invasion and its refusal to form a state commission of inquiry — opened the day’s events at 6:29 a.m., the exact time that the attack began 1,000 days earlier, with a series of protests.

The October Council was also organizing a convoy of vehicles that would tour the worst-hit sites of the attack, beginning at the site of the Nova festival near Kibbutz Re’im, continuing through Nir Oz, Kissufim, Be’eri, Nahal Oz, Kfar Aza and other locations, and ending at a memorial site next to Sderot.

The organization called for a nationwide moment of silence at 10 a.m. to remember the October 7 massacre. That time of day is also the time in which a siren rings out nationwide on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day each year. At 11 a.m., the organization was set to open an exhibit in Tel Aviv presenting 1,000 personal items that belonged to those killed or kidnapped that day.

At 5 p.m., a protest will be held outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, and at 8 p.m. the main rally will be held at the former Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. A number of other events will be held throughout the day at locations nationwide.

Freed hostage Rom Braslavski, who was kidnapped from the Nova festival and held in captivity in Gaza for 737 days before being released in October 2025, said he would speak at the main gathering Thursday evening.

“Friends, I want to invite everyone to the 7.1000.2023 event,” he wrote on social media. “I invite everyone to come, to be moved and to pay respects to the fallen who are no longer with us.”

The October Council began the proceedings already on Wednesday evening, with a gathering at Sha’ar Hanegev, which included speeches from Yael Adar, the widow of slain hostage Tamir Adar, as well as Ali Ziyadne, whose brother Youssef and nephew Hamza were kidnapped and slain in captivity, while another nephew and niece, Bilal and Aisha, were taken captive and freed from Gaza in November 2023.

Ahead of the three-year anniversary of the massacre this fall, dueling ceremonies are once again being planned as the legacy of October 7 remains highly politicized.

On Wednesday, the Kumu (“Rise Up”) organization, a group of October 7 survivors and bereaved families, said it was planning a major memorial in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, separate from the official state-sponsored ceremony.

“Three years after the failure and the disaster, with hearts that still ache, countless questions still awaiting answers, and a memory that must continue to resonate, we are once again taking our stand to present the failure as it unfolded, to give voice to the families, the murdered, the wounded, the survivors of captivity, and the communities that were destroyed — to remember, and to offer hope,” the organization said.

Speaking on Monday ahead of the 1,000-day mark, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said that October 7 was “an attack on the very existence of the Jewish people.”

“That memory requires us to continue to change, to draw and assimilate lessons in the regional learning race,” he said.

The military event opened with a minute of silence in memory of those who fell on October 7 when Hamas led thousands of terrorists in an invasion of southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting 251 as hostages to the Gaza Strip.

The Hamas attack triggered a war in Gaza that spilled over to several other fronts, after Israel came under attack from the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon and Houthi rebels in Yemen, both of which are sponsored by Iran. Israel also went to war with Iran, alongside the US.

Though fighting has largely been halted on all fronts, none of the conflicts have ended with a permanent ceasefire, and sporadic clashes continue to threaten an outbreak of further fighting.

Today Israel marks 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023 massacre, when Hamas terrorists stormed southern Israel, murdering 1,200 people and kidnapping 251 others in the deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. The October Council, representing bereaved families, hostage families, and survivors, has called on the Israeli public to join a day of remembrance, beginning at 6:29 AM (local time) and culminating in a central rally at Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. People across the country also paused for a national moment of silence.

Building on this, I think it speaks to a beautiful facet of religious Judaism where, instead of doing mitzvot for fear of eternal damnation, we do it out of love for G-d and love for others.

chaser

May your Shabbat be peaceful <3