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PURELY COMMENTARY

people still silent when cheer-
leaders for terrorists decide the 
worst massacre of our co-reli-
gionists since the Holocaust is 
a good moment to open up a 
second, global front targeting 
Jews on campus, at work, on 
the streets and at home? 
Clearly not everyone march-
ing under the Palestinian flag 
fantasizes about our deaths or 
the destruction of the world’s 
only Jewish state. 
But, please, try to under-
stand that whether it’s one 
person, 100 people or 10,000, 
the chilling impact of seeing so 
many people echo and excuse 
hateful chants is profound.
It’s not easy to speak on 
behalf of Jews in one country, 
never mind the world, nor do 
we purport to. As journalists, 
we report, opine and comment. 
But the level of fear among 
our readers is like nothing in 
memory. It feels like those two 

equilateral triangles that com-
bine to form our beloved Star 
of David represent a six-point-
ed target.
This is heightened by the fact 
there will be those who dismiss 
every word in this piece as hav-
ing been written in bad faith, 
part no doubt of our supposed 
control of power and the media 
that has manipulated their 
warped minds. 
There will also be Jews who 
tell you this article doesn’t 
speak for them. Before those 
in the media feel the urge to 
put them on the airwaves in 
an attempt at “balance,” please 
first ask for an ounce of proof 
that they represent more than 
a tiny band of misfits. Some 
are more likely to stand along-
side the Iranian regime that 
is so despised by much of the 
Muslim world than they would 
with most Jews. 
Please don’t, however, 

mistake this growing fear for a 
lack of determination to fight 
our corner as citizens deserving 
of support and protection in 
our home nations, or doubt 
our solidarity as a people 
numbering just 16 million. 
In fact, we’ve never been so 
determined, so energized, 
so united and so proud, as 
highlighted by the huge uptick 
in sales of Stars of David. The 
incredible response in holding 
rallies, supporting charities 
and fighting running battles on 
social media is something that 
will remain a source of pride 
for as long as those horrific 
images from Kibbutz Be’eri and 
the peace rave.
 This unity has been a light 
in the darkness. Another has 
been the support, publicly and 
sometimes not, of our real 
friends in all communities. 
Again, we will never ever forget 
this. 

Our collective Jewish heart 
bleeds for the families of those 
who lost relatives in the Hamas 
atrocities and those facing 
agonizing waits for news of 
the kidnapped men, women 
and children. Whether directly 
or not directly, many of our 
readers will be connected to 
these innocents. But our hearts 
bleed, too, for the innocents 
killed in Gaza as a result of 
this entirely unnecessary war 
launched by Hamas.
Over the unbearably painful 
days ahead, we — as providers 
of news for secular or religious 
Jews, those who frequently 
critique Israeli policy and those 
who don’t, those who see Israel 
as central to their identity and 
those who are drawn nearer by 
crises such as this — call on the 
world to listen and treat us as 
you would want to be treated.
It shouldn’t be too much to 
ask. 

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