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This account, first published in JewishNews, is written by an anonymous London-based Guardian employee who has family living on a kibbutz in southern Israel. It offers a look at life in the newspaper’s offices in the days since Hamas’s attack on Israel.

I wake up on October 7 to a text from my brother-in-law: “Thoughts are with your family in Israel. I hope everyone is safe.”

I check the news. Hamas has entered southern Israel. They’re in a kibbutz. My partner’s family is in that kibbutz. His cousin is nine months pregnant. He’s in contact with them; they’re in the safe room. Terrorists are outside.

I check social media. Reports of hostages, maybe three. I check again; perhaps ten.

There has been a massacre at a music festival. I look at the video. Who do I know there? I check social media again; there are videos of hostages. I look at their faces. Do I know them?

We lose contact with family in the kibbutz. I tell myself that the phone lines are down because the IDF are there. I watch Hamas footage as it is coming out. I go on Telegram for the first time in my life and I see a room full of bodies covered in blood. I see children gunned down. I see the bodies of raped women. I see families holding each other as Hamas livestreams atrocities. I look for people I might know.

My partner and I walk 30,000 steps. There’s nothing we can do. Late that evening we hear that his family is safe but their house is gone, neighbors are dead.

I don’t understand. I could have easily been there and part of me thinks I was.

I look at the papers the next day. The newspaper I work for has a tank on the front page: ‘Hundreds die and hostages held as Hamas assault shocks Israel’—victorious terrorists hold a Palestinian flag. The subheading reads ‘Netanyahu declares war as 150 Israelis die. 230 Palestinians killed in air strikes.’

I don’t understand. I know people, Israelis, who were murdered. They did not “die,” as if in some kind of accident. I saw footage of terrorism. It was not an “assault.”

The front page of The Observer, The Guardian’s sister Sunday newspaper, on October 8, the day after the Hamas massacre. (via The Observer)

On Sunday, we get more information about what happened to my partner’s family, about how Hamas set the family’s house on fire when they thought it was empty, how my partner’s cousin screamed for her life when the room filled with smoke, how her husband had to pin her down to stop her cries, how Hamas laughed when they realized the family would need to crawl out of the room, how they refused to leave the burning building. We hear that they somehow survived and walked out through pools of their neighbors’ blood, pieces of dead children littering the street; kids who’d been playing on a Saturday morning.

I’m safe, I’m fine, but I can’t comprehend the color of the sky or the rustle of the trees. I look around at people enjoying their Sunday and I think: Do they not know what is happening? I check the news again and see there are more hostages. I look through the names.

There are still terrorists in Israel.

I listen to the radio, one Israeli interviewee and then one Palestinian. I can hear that the interviewer is struggling as defenders of Hamas justify terrorism. I don’t understand. Is this how they reported the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Did they platform Putin’s people?

I check social media. A friend has posted: “They’ve broken out of jail.” Another has said: “Today is a day of celebration,” and someone else has shared an infographic of “Settler colonialism for beginners.” My old flatmate tells her followers she will be at the demonstration outside the Israeli embassy and she invites people to join her.

On Monday I go to work. How are your family, a colleague asks. When I answer, she squirms. Can’t they just leave, my colleague says. No, they can’t actually.

I look at the morning newsletter for the newspaper I work for. It breaks down the number of dead Palestinian children. It does not mention dead Israeli children.

My group chats are exploding as family and friends work out what has been happening, who is alive. I go back to the news. I type the name of the kibbutz into the wires. Nothing. I read how Hamas invaded “settlements.” They’re not settlements! They’re small, pre-state kibbutzim.

I find out that a friend of a friend was at the music festival and is missing. I’m shaking at work.

I see a colleague who had posted about “decolonization” all over social media over the weekend. They’re laughing with the rest of their team. They’re having a great day. I used to love their podcast, full of hot takes and celeb gossip. Now they’ve evolved into an expert on the Middle East. It doesn’t look like their family is in the middle of it, though.

No one else at work speaks to me about it. I nod my way through conversations about fonts and I stumble home.

I go back the next day. I look at the front page. A photo of Gaza and “violence escalates.” Israelis “dead” but Palestinians “killed.” If they can’t empathize with the Jews now, they never will.

I email the editors. I tell them that my newspaper’s coverage has been upsetting. They tell me that their thoughts are with my family but they stand by the paper’s reporting.

I hear colleagues complaining about the newspaper’s “American readers. They’re always accusing us of antisemitism.” They’re laughing.

I leave work early to go to a vigil outside Downing Street. People quietly weep. Everyone there is Jewish.

I’ve seen on social media that I know people going to a demonstration. Later, I see photos of it: people on lampposts, red flares, Jews hiding inside, the Israeli embassy boxed in. All kinds of people are united in the chant, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” In Sydney, they are shouting: “Gas the Jews.”

On Tuesday, I find out that my friend’s friend at the music festival is dead. I remember the day I’d spent with him on the beach in Tel Aviv last month. He’d gotten back from South America and was excited to travel again. He had been gentle and sweet. I don’t understand.

On Wednesday, I go to work again, and the next day, and the next day. Finally, the pictures from the kibbutz come out. I look at all of them. I rewatch the footage. I bear witness. No colleague asks me how I am again that week.

I go to synagogue at the weekend and cry with my community. The rabbi holds space for pain. I say Kaddish for the boy at the music festival I will never talk to again.

Back at work I see someone pointing to a photo of the Israeli flag burning in the newspaper. They laugh, “This is my favorite picture.”

I remember telling my family that when I next went to Israel I’d lie to my colleagues and tell them it was Spain. I’d lie because my colleagues had said to me of Israel: “You gotta go while you still can.”

Now another colleague asks me what I think of Netanyahu. Do I hold him responsible? I explain that I have protested against Netanyahu but the only people responsible for October 7 are Hamas. She keeps asking me about the settlements. I tell her they’re bad but she won’t stop. “Don’t you think Bibi has a lot to do with this?” I ask her if she has family in the region. She does not.

I’m on social media again. Friends share infographics from Jewish Voice for Peace and heavy-hitting images from the Gaza Health Ministry. I don’t disagree with what they’re posting but they said nothing when October 7 happened. I start unfollowing decades-old friends.

In the days that follow, my synagogue receives a bomb threat, my local rail station has photos of missing children ripped off, I hear of more friends of friends who have been killed. I hear of others who are now enlisted. I hear that a synagogue president in America has been stabbed to death and synagogues all over the world have been vandalized and destroyed.

The newspaper I work for is covering the bombardment of Gaza and I watch in horror. I think that Israel must defend itself. Yet when I say this, people will tell me I am justifying the murder of children. They will tell me it is a genocide.

As the events of October 7 draw on collective Jewish memory of pogroms and the Holocaust, the newspaper I work for will dispel that myth, publishing a piece entitled “Israel must stop weaponizing the Holocaust.” Am I wrong to connect our grief today with that of our past?

In the weeks that follow, I will apply for other jobs and speak exclusively to Jewish friends and family. I will hide myself away from the streets of London and the waves of social media.

I will not forget the photos and videos I saw on October 7, but I start to think about how this day will be marked; how my children’s children will take part in a new commemoration, where we will remember not the Romans or the Persians or the Nazis but Hamas, and how we survived.

Intergenerational trauma has been retriggered but now is not the time to dwell on our historical violent oppression. Now is the time to rise up, speak out, and defend our right to exist. Now is not the time for colleagues to dismiss Jewish pain or publish inflammatory op-eds that will spark more violence.

I will keep applying for other jobs.

Omer Wellber

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Schuster said Mbembe propagates the view that Israel’s conduct is worse than the former apartheid regime in South Africa. Schuster said that is historically false and unacceptable.

Schuster also criticized Mbembe’s writings because they argue that Israel’s interaction with the Palestinians in the context of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is worse than the Holocaust. 

I am glad that Josef Schuster has confronted the abuse of history and bigotry behind South African attacks on Israel. The claim that Israel’s behaviour mirrors that of the apartheid regime is a slander, unmoored from honesty and decency. 

Just because South Africa suffered from apartheid does not automatically make South African academics experts in Middle Eastern history. Mr. Mbembe, who was invited to speak at the Ruhrtriennale evidently is ignorant of the Holocaust, and undesirous of educating himself. 

For the avoidance of doubt, the Holocaust was a systematic attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population (at least in Europe, though North African Jews were also murdered) for the simple reason that they were Jews. This diminished the Jewish population from around 9 million to 3 million: two thirds died. 

It has taken around 70 years to regrow the Jewish population since that time. 

Conversely, the growth of the Palestinian population since 1948, along with the complete lack of any organs of destruction (such as death camps) shows that Israel has done no such thing to the Arabs. On the contrary, Arabs gained citizenship in Israel in 1948 and have retained this, comprising around 20% of Israel’s population. 

The Arabic population of disputed territories in Judea and Samaria has increased. Meanwhile, the Arabs in Gaza demanded and achieved the expulsion of Jewish residents in 2005, and elected a terrorist government, Hamas, whose charter claimed to desire the death of all Jews. Israel’s founding documents do not desire the death of all Arabs. 

Is Mr. Mbembe aware of this? 

The Post reported on that Andreas Görgen,the director of the foreign ministry’s department for culture and communication, tweeted a series of articles in support of Mbembe.

When asked about the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s criticism of Görgen and his tweets in support of an academic who allegedly trivialized the Shoah and spreads antisemitism, the foreign ministry told the Post on Friday: “”We ask for your understanding that we won’t comment on the issue mentioned.”

But of course. When you have no justification for promoting an intellectually dishonest academic who makes facile and offensive comparisons, you cannot comment “on the issue mentioned” (notice the refusal to address antisemitism as the particular problem). 

Here we see the dishonesty of pro-Palestinian activists. They cry out that they have nothing to do with antisemitism, yet their literature and language often include trivialisation of the Holocaust, offensive comparisons between Israeli Jews and Nazi’s, and the use of antisemitic conspiracy theories. 

Worse, these people cannot all be described as “far right”. The man above, Andreas Görgen, runs a mainstream organisation in the German government. This cancer is present everywhere, often masquerading behind social justice and anti-racism. 

Last year, the director of the German Foreign Ministry’s representation for the Palestinian territories, Christian Clages, was revealed to have liked scores of antisemitic tweets while using his government Twitter feed. Clages retained his job. The German paper Bild broke the story about Clages.The foreign ministry disciplined Clages for liking neo-Nazi and KKK tweets.

In the 1940′s, Arabs opposed to Jewish immigration into Palestine collaborated with the British Empire and with Hitler’s Nazi Party to discourage this input. Of these, Haj Amin al-Husseini is known to have met with Hitler around the time that the Endlösung, or Final Solution, was planned. 

Prime Minister Netanyahu was condemned for bringing up this connection in an admittedly clumsy and inaccurate fashion. Nonetheless, the connection between Arab nationalism and Nazism continues to this day, with Nazi tracts available across the Middle East. Just one example: Iran was condemned for hosting a cartoon contest mocking the Holocaust. 

Another: Mahmoud Abbas wrote a dissertation positing that the Holocaust never occurred. 

I also remember reading that Yehudi Menuhin’s son either wrote for or ran a German newspaper which supported the Palestinian cause, and also promoted white supremacist conspiracy theories. We see quite a comfortable alliance between the two forms of racism, even though it would appear that neither could live with the other. The unifying factor is hatred of Jews. 

While I do not generally condone going through people’s social media account history, nor condemning people on account of their past errors if their behaviour has since changed, Clages’ case is different. He works in the government and so must be subject to higher requirements, and he has used his government account to promote neo-Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan. He definitely should have been fired, but sadly still works for the German government. 

Since Mbembe’s country suffered greatly as a result of white supremacist racism, one wonders why he has not compared the Tweets of the KKK and neo-Nazis that Clages promoted to the Holocaust. That would be a far more accurate comparison. 

But perhaps he would not be invited to speak at festivals if he didn’t find ways to scapegoat the Jewish State. 

Antisemitism expresses itself as a conspiracy theory that forms a part of a person’s ideological outlook on the world.  “Learning more about the Holocaust” is not necessarily a cure to it; you have to radically alter your thinking regarding how the world functions and counter the idea that a group of people from a specific ethnic and religious group are behind the scenes pulling all the strings in the world.  Also, Nasreen Khan saying that “others in the party had said as bad or worse” is not helping her case.

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That was a pretty funny time period.

Tablet is sort of like a mixture of Slate (in regards to news), and Buzzfeed (fun food lists and pop culture) - except with all Jewish content! This means its pretty entertaining, but also really informative! For example, a brief look at the front page today shows a combination of top news stories (including a story about Donald Trump’s problematic relationship with Saudi Arabia), and fun Hanukkah tidbits (including how to make the “ultimate Sufganiyot” - or the traditional, DELICIOUS jelly donuts).

One of the coolest things about the site, in my opinion, is its Arts and Culture section, which features really great book reviews (including a lot of children’s & YA book reviews by blogger Marjorie Ingall), original fiction, and even things that aren’t quite 100% Jewish - like a review of J.K. Rowling’s new mystery. Why is it on Tablet? Must be because they call her “Britain’s most prominent defender of the Jews.”

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Україна закрила кордони для іноземців, включаючи тих, хто прямує з держав "зеленого списку". На щастя, уряд в останній момент розширив список винятків, але проблеми це не вирішило. Імпульсивне, політичне і непродумане рішення про заборону вже підірвало довіру до України і створило проблеми для тих іноземців, чий приїзд потрібен нашій країні. В даний час в Україну не можуть потрапити іноземні дипломати, представники європейських фондів і прості громадяни, які виявилися заручниками ситуації. Але в той же час ця заборона залишила кілька лазівок для приїзду хасидів в Умань. Уряд не визнає реальну причину накладеної заборони, проте її видно не озброєним поглядом. Отже, для початку про мотиви уряду. Київ запевняє, що закриває кордони виключно через зростання захворюваності в Україні, "щоб стримати епідемію". Це суперечить логіці, адже ми заборонили в'їзд абсолютно всім іноземцям, включаючи жителів держав "зеленої зони", з захворюваністю в десять разів нижче української. Пояснення просте: офіційна версія не є правдивою. Єдина причина закриття кордонів-це спроба зупинити хасидів, тобто ультраортодоксальних євреїв, які щороку їдуть до Умані на святкування Рош ха-Шана. Цю інформацію підтверджують численні джерела ЗМІ (www.pravda.com.ua/news/2020/08/28/7264457). однак в уряді вирішили не визнаватися ні в чому, і тому вважали за краще скласти легенду, нехай навіть абсурдну. І в чому ж причина такого ставлення до хасидів? А ось тут вже не обійшлося без впливу пандемії. Справа в тому, що Ізраїль, з якого паломники приїжджають найчастіше, останнім часом міцно закріпився в десятці світових "лідерів" за показником нововиявлених хворих коронавірусом. Щодня діагностують 1500-2000 нових хворих (і це - на 9 млн жителів). Причиною цьому-ультраортодоксальні громади, жителі яких (у тому числі з релігійних переконань) не дотримуються карантинних заходів. Це час від часу стає темою обурень в ізраїльських ЗМІ, які фіксують чергове весілля на кілька тисяч людей без масок, засобів захисту тощо. В Умань в останні роки приїжджало близько 40 000 хасидів, які проводили кілька тижнів в тисняві і близькому контакті. Без обмеження на їх в'їзд не менша кількість зібралася б в Умані і цього року. За коронавірусними реаліями це означає гарантоване масове зараження, після якого тисячі хворих повернулися б додому - в Ізраїль та інші країни. Для жителів Умані, які живуть поруч з паломницькими кварталами, ходять в ті ж магазини, як і хасиди, і живуть в одному під'їзді з ними, ця історія не могла б завершитися без наслідків. У цьому сенсі урядова заборона цілком обґрунтована. Проблема в наступному: замість точкової заборони уряд обрав тотальний контроль, та ще й прикрив його неправдою. Заперечуючи реальну причину обмежень і заявляючи:» причиною є епідемія всередині держави", уряд створює враження, що він планує тримати кордони закритими ще дуже довго. Однак насправді Україна планує вийти з режиму ізоляції в кінці вересня - як тільки" хасидська загроза " пройде. До слова, багатьох обурив і багатьом зламав плани не тільки урядова заборона, а й несподіване введення ізоляції за день до публічно оголошеного терміну. Єдиною причиною для такого "зсуву", знову ж таки, стала спроба"побороти хасидів". Справа в наступному: після оголошення про наміри закрити кордони, в уряді з'явилася інформація - хасиди також масово кинулися в нашу країну в останній дозволений день. У відповідь там вирішили зупинити їх, заодно "покаравши" добропорядних мандрівників. На жаль, в уряді недооцінили побічні наслідки цього кроку, а даремно. Це божевільний удар по іміджу України, так як для всіх європейських організацій, таке рішення показало, що Україна залишається непередбачуваним партнером, який не дотримується власних, публічно проголошених рішень. Однак поставленої мети уряд все одно не досягло. У підсумку хасиди, яких Київ намагався зупинити цією блокадою, все одно потрапили в Умань, а ось для добропорядних мандрівників Україна створила масу проблем. Більш того, "під роздачу" потрапили також громадяни України - діти, які перебували за кордоном з родичами-іноземцями. Тепер вони просто не мають можливості повернутися додому! Важко навіть уявити емоції людей, яких так підставив власний уряд. Українська держава, несподівано закривши кордони, створила проблеми для багатьох законослухняних громадян, але так і не змогла зупинити навалу хасидів. Видання єврейської меншини Jewishnews повідомляє, що прикордонники отримали вказівку пустити в Україну всіх хасидів, які прибули в аеропорти, всупереч урядовій забороні. Навіщо були всі проблеми, сльози, зірвані рейси, згорілі квитки? Питання вимагає відповіді.