"#October8 was the number one #documentary in #America on its opening weekend and went on to finish 2025 as the fifth highest-grossing documentary of the year. In #Britain, no #cinema wants to screen it. #Director #WendySachs’ forensic account of what followed the #October7 massacres has struggled to find #UK platforms. #Cinemas declined to take it. Traditional #streaming deals proved elusive.

Its arrival on #Amazon and #AppleTV has not come through acquisition or promotional backing, but through persistence — and without marketing support. “So we’re doing our own promotion,” says Sachs plainly. The irony is not lost on her or her small team of #producers. October 8 examines institutional silence and organised narrative.

Two weeks after October 7, #Sachs began filming."

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/why-no-one-will-screen-october-8/

'Always there for us': Jewish-Kurdish alliance grows in Europe

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/02/22/jewish-kurdish-alliance-europe-october-7-congress-israel/

I had a letter in the Newcastle Herald today:
War started long before October 7
GRANT Agnew says he lost a Jewish friend by objecting to "a silly piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda" but seems to have fallen for another such piece: that Hamas started this war ("War won't end without surrender", Letters, 11/2).

October 7 was essentially a brutal revenge attack for previous major assaults by Israel, which it has cynically described as "mowing the grass". I wonder if Mr Agnew knows about the over 6000 Palestinians shot, with many kneecapped, in 2018-19 during unarmed protests over their ongoing oppression. This war has been running for many decades. I also wonder if he knows the Times of Israel has reported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was funding Hamas via Qatar to wedge the Palestinian Authority's policy of a two-state solution.
#auspol #Gaza #October7

"Since #Hamas’ #October7 #terrorist attack, many #Jewish #faculty at #colleges and #universities across the country have been describing their professional lives in language more commonly associated with #trauma than #academic disagreement. In a nationwide #survey of more than 200 Jewish-identifying #US-based faculty conducted between April and July of 2025 by the #AcademicEngagementNetwork (#AEN) and the #AntiDefamationLeague (#ADL), respondents spoke of fear, isolation, and a loss of belonging on their own #campuses.

One Jewish faculty member starkly described the experience: “I’m being attacked online…I have been ostracized by faculty in a smear campaign. I have been advised…not to come to #campus…this is as bad as it gets.” Another shared, “faculty are not talking to me because they know I’m a #Zionist.” And another participant confided, “I am being attacked in all directions, and I no longer feel safe on campus.”

And these aren’t isolated incidents."

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/387032/the-hidden-cost-of-campus-antisemitism-faculty-mental-health/

"#Boller, [...] a committee member appointed by President #DonaldTrump and is tasked with formulating policy recommendations on #religious freedom issues, declared during the debate that she believes "#Jews killed #Jesus" and that due to her #Catholic faith, "she does not support #Zionists." During the hearing, she also asked panel participants, "Does my opposition to the State of #Israel make me #antisemitic, yes or no?" and received boos from some of those present in the room.

During the debate, Boller confronted #Jewish witnesses who shared experiences of #antisemitism following the #Hamas attack on #October7 and argued that the term "antisemitism" is, in her view, defined too broadly. At one point, she even noted that she counted the number of times Israel was mentioned in the debate and demanded that participants "condemn what Israel did in #Gaza."

Another statement that sparked sharp reactions was Boller's defense of #rightwing #influencer #CandaceOwens..."

https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/02/10/white-house-commissioner-antisemitic-remarks-hearing/

"#Jewish continuity has never been sustained by conferences or consensus statements. It has been sustained by families, #schools, #synagogues, #camps, study, and shared memory. It has been sustained by #Jews living Jewish lives among other Jews.

That work is harder. It is less glamorous. It does not flatter professional leadership structures.

It works.

The choice in front of us is clear to me. #October7 stripped away comforting myths. The question is whether Jewish leadership responds with cosmetic adjustment or structural honesty. The future of Jewish life will not be secured by being seen as relevant to everyone else. It will be secured by investing unapologetically in ourselves.

Less choreography.
Less placation.
Less money spent managing decline.

More education.
More rootedness.
More continuity.

I believed in the old model once. Many of us did. The moment demands that we be honest about where it led – and brave enough to build something better."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/october-7-did-not-shatter-illusions-it-exposed-a-broken-jewish-strategy/

Inside Netanyahu's Distorted Protocols: Debunking His October 7 Narrative - Israel Security
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-02-08/ty-article-magazine/.premium/haaretz-fact-check-meeting-protocols-show-netanyahus-lies-and-deceptions-about-october-7/0000019c-3944-d8da-abfc-7f6ed4f10000

Archive https://archive.ph/OhdG8

'Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a detailed 55-page document on Thursday, containing his version of the failures that led to October 7.'

'Since October 7, Haaretz has obtained minutes and summaries of many discussions referred to by Netanyahu in his arguments.'

Haaretz has the picture....
(#Longread)

#Israel #October7 #Gaza

#OnlineEvent | The Center for Law and Antisemitism, Israel, hosts academic panel on: Contemporary #Antisemitism: Left, Right, and the Arab–Muslim World | Registration: https://www.colman.ac.il/events/contemporary-antisemitism/

#October7 #USA #Iran #Germany

February 17, 2026 | 7:30 PM (Israel time) | On Zoom

Worth watching 🌸

https://www.youtube.com/live/k609ELQNfS8?si=QkCtuNfXCWWEKaCp

Trauma und sozialer Zusammenhalt in den Kibbuzim nach dem 7. Oktober

#october7 #kibbuz #israel #trauma

Oct. 7 bereaved families fight Jerusalem hotel plan by businessman tied to Hamas

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/02/05/october-7-families-petition-netanyahu-block-hamas-linked-hotel-jerusalem/