"[#HowardJacobson] has #written and spoken about how unmoored he has felt from his country, society and fellow citizens during the brutal conflict in #Israel and #Gaza, and has attracted opprobrium for doing so; in #Howl, he explores not simply a feeling of being out of joint with the times, but of experiencing the reawakened fear of #displacement and #violence that #antisemitism provokes. He knows, one suspects, that some #readers will find this utterly enraging, not to say morally repulsive, and he confronts them head on; in Ferdinand Draxler, he creates a man who wholeheartedly believes that #7October has allowed #Jew-hatred to flourish untrammelled, who argues – to anyone who will listen, and even more to those who will not – that it has provided the alibi for #antisemites to do what they wanted to do all along.

Unsurprisingly, Howl is an immensely uncomfortable #novel; it is also, like most of #Jacobson’s work, a comic one."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/16/howl-by-howard-jacobson-review-a-tragicomic-portrait-of-a-jewish-mans-despair

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/12/roei-shalev-survivor-of-7-october-nova-festival-attack-in-israel-found-dead Survivor of #7October #Novafestival attack in #Israel found dead

Roei Shalev, 30, whose girlfriend and best friend were killed in front of him at festival, took his own life on Friday night

The Kaddish, then flute play from yesterday's memorial event #7oct at the square of the synagogue in #Göttingen

Thank You! 🖖

(Es sind Zugvögel im Hintergrund laut zu hören, bitte nicht wundern)

#Israel #7October #NeverAgain #BringThemHome #BringThemHomeNow #dig

#TheParentsCircle #ParentsCircle
#SeventhOfOctober #7October

We must get rid of all #extremists,
break the cycle of violence

#FreePalestine
#StandingTogether
#TwoStateSolution