But too many, from Hollywood actors to post-colonial studies professors, seem determined to forget, or to twist, the truth of that day.
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many → seem → day
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Sign → sign → California
In addition to Hamas’ brutality, something else was unleashed that day.
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something → unleash → brutality
Terrorists were still slaughtering Israelis when Jews around the world were hit with a barrage of hatred so seething and violent it caught many by surprise.
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it → slaughter → surprise
They chanted “free Palestine,” “by all means necessary,” “from the river to the sea” and even “gas the Jews.”
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They → chant → Jews
It’s the product of a deliberate campaign decades in the making that united a wide range of social and political movements, aided and abetted by Islamist states and groups, around a common cause: hatred of Israel.
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that → ’ → Israel
After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel’s enemies realized they could not destroy it militarily.
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they → realize → it
They shifted their strategy toward delegitimizing Israel’s existence.
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They → shift → existence
An entire ecosystem of anti-Israel, antisemitic hate was created.
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ecosystem → create → hate
It was ready to be activated with a simple message.
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It → activate → message
The Jews or Zionists are cast as agents of evil.
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Jews → cast → evil
On October 8, 2023, thirty-three Harvard student groups signed a letter that they “hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
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regime → sign → violence
That’s not a normal response when terrorists massacre and kidnap young people at a music festival and murder families in their homes.
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terrorists → ’ → homes
It’s a moral inversion.
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It → ’ → ?
Hamas committed a despicable atrocity, Israel was attacked, and like any other country in its place, would have to fight back and fight back hard.
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Israel → commit → place
Many people saw that reality clearly.
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people → see → reality
But as the war in Gaza continued, many became confused.
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many → continue → Gaza
Increasingly, Hollywood celebrities lined up to flip morality on its head.
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celebrities → line → head
On October 7, they refused to call Hamas terrorists.
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they → refuse → October
Now they demand we call the war that followed a “genocide.
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that → demand → war
But there is no “genocide” in Gaza; Israel was forced to fight a war it did not choose, and war is ugly.
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war → be → war
Civilians who have suffered deserve our compassion.
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who → suffer → compassion
Mistakes should be investigated.
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Mistakes → investigate → ?
But that does not constitute a “genocide.”
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that → constitute → genocide
This abuse of language has become a Hollywood purity test: Call Israel’s war of self-defense a “genocide,” or else you will be harassed, attacked, canceled — and placed on a new blacklist.
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you → become → blacklist
He tried to show some balance, and they’re still coming for him
No one is allowed to say this war started when terrorists committed an act of mass murder, violence and rape as brutally sadistic as any in history.
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terrorists → try → history
We cannot become confused.
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We → become → ?
Jews should not internalize the hatred we face, and non-Jews should understand that the threats Israel is fighting are a threat to them too.
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Israel → internalize → them
We have a religion.
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We → have → religion
As bestselling author Dara Horn has said: “It’s not complicated, it’s just old.
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it → say → ?
Jews are a joinable tribal group with a shared history, homeland and culture.
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Jews → share → history
That’s a whole sentence in English.
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That → ’ → English
But in Hebrew, it’s just two letters: Am.
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it → ’ → Hebrew
The moral inversion squad say they love Jews; they just hate Zionism.
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they → say → Zionism
They are spreading a false idea of who Jews are.
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Jews → spread → idea
They tell Jews that if we just call the war a “genocide,” and agree Israel is evil and should be destroyed, they will accept and embrace us.
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they → tell → us
The implied threat: Bend the knee to Macklemore, or get bullied out of work.
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threat → bend → work
Throughout history, Jews have been told that we can be accepted as individuals if only we renounce the reality of who we are as a people.
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we → tell → people
There have always been some who capitulated.
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who → capitulate → ?
It didn’t work before, and won’t now.
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It → work → ?
…and 5 more, not listed.
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