"The #Hanukkah attack did not come out of nowhere. #Antisemitism in #Australia was never abstract to me; it was visible and real. As a child, I remember #yeshiva students being harassed while walking down the street wearing #kippot, and car-bombing scares near a #Jewish institution in #Melbourne. Even when I didn’t fully grasp their seriousness, these incidents became part of the background noise of growing up Jewish in Australia.
#Oct7 marked a turning point, when the intensifying antisemitism across the country reached a fever pitch that has not abated. My mother and one of my brothers live within walking distance of Adass Israel #Synagogue, which was set on fire in 2024. In a separate incident that same year, East Melbourne #Hebrew Congregation was also set on fire during a Friday night gathering. These attacks were not distant news stories; they struck close to the places and people I know and love."
https://stljewishlight.org/opinion/commentary/the-australia-i-knew-and-the-one-we-face-today/
From the time I was 5 through my teenage years, I grew up as an American Jew in Melbourne, Australia, returning to the United States twice a year to visit my father. Melbourne is where my Jewish identity was formed and where the rhythms of Jewish life shaped who I am today. My mother and...
From Svivah:
This Shabbat in particular, I have Romi Gonen on my mind. Romi was returned from captivity last January after 471 days in Gaza. She was recently featured in a two-part Israeli news program in which she disclosed her horrible experiences in captivity as a female hostage. She is beautiful, and brave, and working so hard to heal what has been broken.
Link here to watch Part One with English subtitles: https://svivah.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f10525e6114197e4187260747&id=234a4e3a40&e=9995d0012b
This feels especially poignant since Romi’s story, and the abuses experienced by many of the returning hostages, have not had the public stage they deserve. We know...this global silence is incredibly painful. For all of us as Jewish women and — particularly — for the survivors among us. Traumatic invalidation is all too real — and we are feeling its effects.
"After a year in which #Israel, #antisemitism and #political #polarization scrambled long-standing alliances, the #American #Jewish political map is heading into 2026 unusually unsettled.
From #NewYork #CityHall to #swingstate #governors’ mansions to some of the most crowded #Democratic #primaries in memory, the coming #election cycle will test how much Jewish #voters still cohere as a political bloc — and whether the issues that have dominated Jewish life since #Oct7 will continue to shape the ballot box. The rise of outspoken pro-#Palestinian #candidates, fractures inside both parties over Israel, and the growing visibility of #antisemitism on the left and the right have turned races that might once have seemed parochial into national bellwethers."
"#Jews around the world were already reeling after nearly two years of #war and death in #Gaza and the grim confirmation that many #hostages hadn’t survived the #Oct7, 2023, attacks or two years of captivity. Then came news of the shootings in #Sydney, #Australia, where 15 people were gunned down during a #Chanukah celebration on #BondiBeach.
Despite its grief, the #Jewish world also took time to celebrate the lives lived by a constellation of figures who made lasting contributions to #film, #architecture, #politics and Jewish #scholarship and letters.
In chronological order, here are #obituaries of 18 notable Jews who died in 2025."
RE: https://mas.to/@NotImpressed/115787365823546958
On Trump’s plan: “Our Palestinian people are among the world's richest in expertise and competencies, and possess all the means to manage their own affairs. Attempts to impose political trusteeship on them from any party are rejected and can only be considered a form of occupation.”
100%
@palestine
#Oct7 #HannibalDIrective
#IsraelTerroristState
#Investigation
RE: https://mas.to/@NotImpressed/115787362665437850
Hamas: “The resistance did not target any hospital, school, or house of worship; it did not kill a single journalist or any member of ambulance crews. We challenge [Israel] to prove otherwise,”
“Israel’s military bombed areas in southern Israel where Israeli civilians were intermixed with Hamas fighters [Hannibal Directive]”
@palestine
#Oct7 #HannibalDIrective
#IsraelTerroristState
#Investigation
RE: https://mas.to/@NotImpressed/115787358876736552
Pages and pages of Israeli propaganda on Oct 7, but nobody, nobody has bothered to ask Hamas what actually happened.
It would be fair and refreshing to view the 42 page document Hamas just published.
Hamas: “The Israeli entity promoted a series of lies and fallacies about killing children and raping women, paving the way to proceed with an all-out genocide project that was pre-planned and aimed to erase Gaza from existence,”
#Oct7 #HannibalDIrective
#IsraelTerroristState
#Investigation
"Hamas has called on Israel to allow an impartial international investigation into its attack on 7 October 2023 and has rejected that it killed civilians or committed atrocities.
Hamas said that “Western media and Zionist lobby groups” had launched a disinformation campaign about the events of the attack"
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hamas-calls-israel-allow-impartial-investigation-7-october
@palestine
#Oct7 #HannibalDIrective
#IsraelTerroristState
#Investigation
"On her Uber app, Sivan’s name is Alexandra. Noa tells people her name is Nina. Michal goes by Micky in car services and when ordering coffee.
These days, some #NewYorkers with #Jewish-sounding names are providing fake names when they interact with strangers. They say the motivation is to feel safer around town, given the spike in #antisemitism in #NewYorkCity and elsewhere after #Oct7. Most wish they didn’t have to hide an important part of themselves, but they do so to protect themselves physically and emotionally." 🤬
Gerd
דער קערפער פֿון השם
Leah kvetches all the time
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