#Oct 7th massacre

[proudzionist]

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[lostinsidelostoutside]

Please 🙏 🙏🙏 for the hostages and their families 🙏🙏🙏 they did absolutely nothing to deserve this !

What happened on Oct 7th never should've happened.

Hamas are not freedom fighters they are nothing but evil cowards who even turned on their own people .

They must be defeated for both sides sake.

The UN should be defunded for not condemning the Hamas atrocities.

[straynoahide]

Oct 7, 2024

I don't usually post in these tags and I didn't intend to make this blog about I/P politics, but today is different.

Today is the first anniversary of the Simchat Torah Massacre, Oct 7, one of the darkest days in Jewish and Israeli history.

It is not a day for silence. Not for Western silence, especially not when Iran boasts of the pain it has caused and wants yet to cause, and weak leaders cave in to pressures and opportunism.

People who devised the spilling of blood, from the river to the sea, succeeded. And this shiva will take more than a year to sit - it has no clear good ending. Peace and a full victory are still not in sight.

This day of Jewish and Israeli grief should extend to all humanity, a day to remember immeasurable loss and pain. More than lives were lost when so many hopes shattered in front of our eyes, in hours.

A year ago, innocent people in the kibbutzim of Kfar Aza, Be'eri, Nir Oz, among other communities, and in the Nova Music Festival, became victims of opportunity to Gazan militiamen harangued by jihadist groups dressed as a liberation movement.

Men welcomed in the safer offices of Doha and Teheran, running a regime with no free elections, sat out the ugly parts while they ordered 2M people to hallow death in the name of the destruction of Israel.

At the same time, they planned one of the greatest campaigns of disinformation and lawfare. All, so the aligned interests of Iran, dressed in progressive language, stoked the ageless antisemitism, left-wing and right-wing, and made western societies more unstable, divided and devoid of their liberal democratic principles - in all fronts and to all consequences, which transcend I/P.

And in the end, this is not just about ideals. Performative activism means nothing. This is about warfare- the economic dimension is critical, in whose ability to attack and defend is funded by supposed allies of democracy, progressive values and peace.

We can't have good societies if we don't believe in our own capacity for goodness and abandon the very principles that made us universal-hearted and freedom-loving in the first place.

Neither thoughts nor prayers in any Abrahamic religion could have stopped Hezbollah from killing Druze, Iran from killing Bedouin and Palestinian Arabs. No, that takes the infrastructure of a society built to protect lives and not end them, but it costs to maintain, and an international community brave enough to stand up to Iran.

Due to personal reasons, involving some folk I hold dear, it was on Oct 7 I began the spiritual journey that made me who I am today and although I am not part of Am Yisrael, I'm involved with the Israeli community.

As a transcultural person with universal values and as a Hebrew-speaking Christian, I will always defend my Jewish cousins worldwide; no matter their religion, country or life choices. I always say that Ukraine's struggle made me feel Western, and ironically, Israeli Jews made me connect more with Christianity than my own national heritage ever could.

You are right to feel the West has failed you, and I believe the same. There is an undeniable darkness. I want you to hear this from me as a Jewish ally, especially if you are from Israel - your pain is seen and your grievances are heard. Western nations, governments, even societies. Entire political parties and political families. You are right to feel like you don't have anyone.

But, you do. You have allies and you always will. And, this is not final. Despair is their weapon, too. So it must be an inflexion point instead. As it is always darkest before dawn - it is always worse before it gets better. We must organize, build bridges and coalitions, empathize and understand each other. We must together change the world, in our similarities and differences, and I have a deep faith that in the future, antisemitism has no place.

We will be there when it matters. There is no future for humanity without Jewish self-determination, sovereignty and security in the ancestral homeland.

Believe it, because I do, and our will is stronger than the will of our enemies, whoever takes up that path to nowhere.

If you need to hear it, hear it: your allies understand the assignment, never again is now; and that it means never again is now. We will never go on without you again.

For every single life lost in Oct 7, for those who can't fulfill the dream, we owe them to try and dig the world out of this hole, and we will, united. This is the best homage. Bear witness.

Sincerely, a random soul from Sefarad who loves you very much

May their memories be a blessing.

Am Yisrael Chai

[chanaleah]

Tomorrow, my school's Jewish community is having a small memorial service for October 7th. It's a day early, because we're busy people and we all just missed classes for Rosh Hashanah. It's not an official gathering - only the Jewish students have been told, and the Rabbi told us not to spread around that it's happening.

It got me thinking. Because I know I'll commemorate the anniversary this year. Probably next year, too. And the year after that. I suppose we'll just keep going. In 100, 200, 300 years we'll still be remembering.

What will we call it? Yom October 7th? I think that sounds stupid. But it'll get a name.

Eventually, there will be traditions. Perhaps similar ones to Tisha B'av. Will October 7th become the saddest day of the Jewish calendar? My guess is no. But it will be the freshest sad day - at least until the next tragedy.

Will we celebrate on October 7th, or on 23rd Tishrei? Will October 7th be a separate holiday from Simchat Torah, or will here on out Simchat Torah always have an undercurrent of sadness? I don't know.

I remember October 7th, 2023, like it was yesterday. Actually, I don't really know what I did yesterday. But I remember October 7th so clearly. I remember saying that Israel's wars were usually short - the 6 Day War, the Yom Kippur war. This one would be a month - at most. How wrong I was.

I'm a different person now than the person I was on October 6th. It's bittersweet. I'm less trusting of goyim. I've compromised a bit on my values more when it comes to consuming media. I care more about my people than I did before. I know a lot more about Jewish history. I'm willing to argue with someone about I/P - but I don't want to. I don't think I would go back to the person I was on October 6th. But I hope this is over soon.

[secular-jew]

Truth

[proudzionist]

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Jews weren't the only ones these Psychopaths murdered on Oct 7th !

Monsters is all Hamas and those who participated in these atrocities with Hamas are .

[lostinsidelostoutside]

I saw the video to this on YouTube and what he saw with his own eyes is absolutely heartbreaking 💔 😢

[imnotkosmic]

A year later, bring them home now. 🎗️

Am Yisreal Chai 💙🇮🇱🕊️

[noaluvs]

Posted 52 minutes ago .

[refractorind]

SUNDAY STRIP

[xixovart]

a genocide is something that none of us expected to witness. it is something no living soul deserves to experience, which is why we should take every chance we get to help a victim. whether it’s by donating, or even just reblogging or sharing a post if you’re unable to donate. something is better than nothing

mohamed almadhonne (@eazeldin ) is aperson in gaza who desperately needs your help. he has been through so much these past 300 days, and his life is in risk more and more with each passing second.

mohamed and his family have been displaced over five times. their careers, homes, and lives have been destroyed throughout this genocide, and this family now relies on selling food to survive.

mohamed’s father is severely ill and partially paralyzed. this family requires your assistance to get out of gaza and return to safety.

nothing will ever be the same for these people again, but you can help them return to some form of normality just by sharing their gofundme.

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lives are at stake and this genocide is urgent.

[because--palestine]

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[chanaleah]

The one comment on the poll post about the definition of a pogrom confuses me??? Goysplaining seriously. Hamas IS the governing body of palestine? Meaning….it was supported… by the government…

firstly, you're totally correct with that, anon.

secondly, historically (think 1800s pale of settlement) many pogroms were not government supported, but were rather started by groups of people.

[secular-jew]

Hello, my name is Mohammed Ibraheem from Gaza City, Father of three children. I hope you can help me by donating to my family. You may be the reason we survived. If you can't donate, I hope you can help me spread my campaign so I can find someone to help me and save my family. My go-ghost , el-shab-hussien , ibtisams , nabulsi and gaza-evacuation-funds campaign has been verified as number 240💔🍉🙏🇵🇸

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My first priority is to massacred raped beaten and burned-alive Israeli victims and families of victims (Jewish, Muslim, Christian, Hindu and atheist), not to unknown allies of the perpetrators.

[tiredgirlvent]