Even after overwhelming evidence of Palestinian sexual atrocities of October 7th, much of the world still treats Jewish suffering as negotiable, deniable, or politically inconvenient.
Meg, I honestly think one of the deepest parts of your article is not only the horror of October 7th itself, but how much of the reaction afterward was shaped by the ideological environment already built inside Western institutions.
When mainstream media, universities, activist movements, and much of the progressive ecosystem already frame the world primarily through oppressor-versus-oppressed narratives, Israel and Jews are automatically placed into the “powerful oppressor” category before facts are even processed. Once that framework is emotionally established, even atrocities as horrific as October 7th get minimized, contextualized, rationalized, or morally blurred almost immediately.
That is why I personally think the media has played an enormous role in shaping the coldness and moral confusion you describe. If mainstream institutions had honestly confronted the barbarity of October 7th, exposed the lies, highlighted the ideological extremism involved, and treated Jewish suffering with the same moral clarity applied elsewhere, I do not believe the public reaction would have looked the same.
What happened did not emerge from nowhere. It was the product of decades of ideological conditioning inside universities, activist culture, media framing, and the alliance between radical progressive movements and Islamist narratives. And many Jews simply did not foresee how powerful that cultural shift had become until October 7th shattered the illusion all at once.
I’m halfway through the report and it is graphic and horrifying. I had no doubt rapes were occurring during October 7 Massacre given how interpersonal the violence was. I believed the rapes were happening then, when I saw Screams before Silence, read The Dinah Project’s report and now with this report.
I, too, am so sickened by not only just the violence and the sheer brutality of the rape but also how it was denied and claimed to be JUSTIFIED.
I worked and volunteered with many feminists and women who raised awareness and supported survivors of sexual violence and many of them denied and justified Hamas’ actions. Denial of victims’ accounts of sexual stacks on more trauma on those victims and witnesses.
I believe the witnesses in this report. I believe them.
And our colleges and grade school have doubled down. As has MSM and half of congress. I am not here to defend Trump but imagine if Harris had won and if the Dems now controlled the senate and house. Or imagine that happening in 28. Its easy if you try. All of this can and should pose questions such as if this comes to pass what then. Many do not care to discuss or think about scenarios like this.
Clarity Seeker, I agree with what you said completely. And honestly, there is no harm in openly defending Trump on this issue because no modern American president has done more to confront antisemitism directly or support Israel more strongly than Donald Trump.
And you’re right — it is difficult to imagine how much worse things could already be if Kamala Harris and a fully progressive Democratic establishment controlled the White House, Senate, and House simultaneously during this cultural moment.
What frustrates me most is that even now, with antisemitism exploding openly across universities, media, activist movements, and parts of public life, there are still many Jews treating secondary political issues as though we are living in completely normal times. We are not.
When a people begins facing rising hostility socially, culturally, and politically, survival and security inevitably become central concerns whether people feel emotionally comfortable admitting it or not
Yes sir. I voted trump.thrice. no regrets and I echo your points on israel support. I am withholding full judgment as to what he does next. Or doesn't do. Both regarding israel amd the US. Many of his current obsessions are both dumb and counterproductive. No discipline or self control. But better by far than the alternatives
I agree. But rest assured, every single president in my lifetime has had policies that I thought were terrible. It's always a question of the lesser of two evils.
It’s deeply unsettling that there can be so much undeniable evidence in the form of photos, videos and witness testimony that was available immediately after the event and a substantial portion of society and the media are bending over backwards to sympathize with the perpetrators and their toady apologists. It wasn’t so long ago that Holocaust deniers were considered to be on the fringes of society, now they control the narrative and discourse. Feels like we’ve returned to the 1930’s.
The evidence is clear, but the MSM is actively covering up the truth to prevent public retaliation and civil unrest. By flipping the narrative and painting them as the victims, the media is directly fueling even more violence. The bias is dangerous.
After October 7th — filmed, documented, undeniable — much of the world simply didn't care. Jewish suffering was minimized, reframed as political inconvenience, dismissed. Not because the evidence was unclear. Because it happened to Jews. That has always been reason enough.
And then, with breathtaking speed, that same world found its voice — not to condemn what was done to us, but to protect those who did it. The bodies weren't cold before the calls came to restrain any response, to demand proportionality, to shield the perpetrators from consequence. The world that couldn't summon outrage for the victims had endless outrage for the retaliation.
This isn't new. Throughout history, the world wasn't just a passive witness to mass violence against Jews. In many cases, they participated. In others, they simply waited.
The perpetrators of October 7th filmed it with pride. They knew exactly what they were doing — and they knew, from experience, that the world's outrage would be limited, conditional, and short-lived. And the world, predictably, forgot — or chose to forget — the glee. The pride. The honor they cultivated among their own people by broadcasting those acts. These were not ashamed men hiding their crimes. They celebrated them. They shared them. Their communities received them as triumph. That too was documented. That too was ignored.
Mourning doesn't protect anyone. Sympathy doesn't stop the next attack. Being the world's designated victim just paints a target.
Mourning doesn't protect anyone. Sympathy doesn't stop the next attack. Being the world's designated victim just paints a target.
So we act — without delay and without illusion. We build the kind of strength that commands respect, not sympathy. The kind of power that makes people calculate consequences before they act. If fear is part of that calculation, so be it. This is not a moment's resolve — it is a long term commitment, built deliberately, sustained across generations, because that is what survival has always required of us.
.History taught us the lesson the hard way: no one is coming to save us. We save ourselves. We always have. We always will.
The world doesn't have to love us. It doesn't have to mourn us. It just has to know — we are not defenseless, and we will never forget.
How would I react if I thought that the atrocities could happen here in the U.S.? I am beyond that point. When a culturally and scientifically advanced society such as a Germany of the 1930s can devolve into Nazism; when the wife of the mayor of NYC can totally deny the atrocities that have been documented for all to see; when a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida (Dan Bilzerian) can shoot his mouth off about his desire to eliminate Israel and kill IDF soldiers; when some American Jews themselves try to equalize the actions of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Gazan civilians with the defensive actions of the Israelis and the IDF; then, I suffer no illusions. I am convinced that it can happen here. Here is my humble advice and react as follows. Exercise your Constitutional right under the 2nd Amendment. As soon as your local sporting goods store opens, go there and purchase your means of self defense that you judge appropriate for yourself. Then practice, practice, practice. One thing I know for sure, nothing strikes the fear of God into an antisemite like a Jew with a means of self defense in his/her hand.
100% Jews will find little comfort in history. Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses states that history "is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" and so it is and always will be - with Jews always in the crosshairs. I'm in Canada where there is no 2nd amendment and the government attempts to take guns away from legal, licensed gun owners. Nonetheless, one can buy several types of rifles, including semi automatics. Handguns can not be legally purchased, illegally - no problem. Two years ago I attended a firearms course (approved the federal police - RCMP) and obtained a possession and acquisition licence (PAL) and then purchased a few and learned how to use and care for them.
I have sympathy for my friends in Canada. But make no mistake, if we did not have the 2nd Amendment to support the individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms, and a Supreme Court that has upheld that right (so far anyway), our gov'mint would have grabbed those guns a long time ago. I would never advise anyone to violate the laws of their country; on the other hand, self-preservation has a value all its own.
"Hamas accomplished their goals. They turned the worst evil imaginable into a carnival of hate that much of the West was happy to justify, to endorse, to at the very least dismiss as “part of something complex and nuanced” — as if the sheer scale of the evil could ever be nuanced."
What does this report and the parallel behavior of human rights organizations, the UN and Democratic states say about Western society?
It says that Western society is in a state of inexorable decline and decay. I live in a metro area and country that is on the leading edge of Western societal and economic degradation. To wit: the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) the city that gifted the world with Israel Apartheid Week (University of Toronto) has a population of 7.5 million. Due to unrestrained and unvetted immigration fostered by a government that's now in its' 2nd decade of ineptitude & malfeasance, the GTA has the 2nd largest muslim population in North America - 2nd only to NYC. The Muslim population numbers approximately 750K or 10% of the metro population. The Muslim population is growing rapidly while the Jewish population of some 200K is shrinking. The 3 levels of government, municipal, provincial & federal are at best indifferent or at worst complicit in the marginalization and harassment of the Jewish community. As I've written before, probably on this site, the fact of the matter is that most politicians are whores who have 2 objectives 1) get in power 2) stay in power. Thus in the GTA, the huge Muslim population prevails, for the most part, in the minds of politicians. Result: Jews lose resulting in increasing numbers who have left or are considering leaving the area. The Muslim population represents 1.7% of the US population, whereas in Canada it's 5% Nonetheless, stateside one only needs to consider NYC and Minneapolis, et al, to see the road of dissolution, destruction, and decay that lies ahead.
A depraved, subhuman, satanic death cult doesn't even begin to describe the creatures who committed these atrocities against Israelis. And the so-called "human rights" "peacenik" crowd celebrated every bit of it
This is why I despise the left and fake feminist organizations. They are not humanitarians; they are evil and inhuman.
I dare the anti-Israel/anti-Zionist/antisemites to read this highly documented report with its thousands of photos and thousands of hours of video and try to deny or justify October 7. Only a raging antisemitic psychopath would justify or excuse this level of evil.
It's simply astounding that the world so quickly turned the perpetrators into the victims and the victims into the bad guys.
It's despicable that the western media has buried this report.
Critics of Israel, what if this happened to your child, your family, your community? Would you respond the way you demanded Israel respond, which is to have done nothing?
That's why I fight, my darlings .... I know what the Hamassey style is like on social media because I was fighting the Jeremy Corbyn people (Owen Jones was his PR guy).
I don't think many could confront the extreme horrors of October 7 and were quick to choose relief and excuses for it rather than face it.
But not excusing them and their weak, weak, weak sheep behaviour. Stupid, yes, and deluded if they think the sun shines out of their arse...
I hear your truth and I will be going to the Nova exhibition in London soon.
Bless you and your strength. You have taught me Grace, Strength, Resilience and I admire you all forever 🙏🌼💪🇮🇱💙🫂❤️
Important read. I wonder what would have happened had the videoed atrocities been posted on social media more than the Paliwood videos. Why were they hidden? I understand privacy for the families but when you have people crying over fake Pali videos why not show real ones from Oct 7?
As maddening as is some Gentile reaction, the numbers of Jews who parade their alleged Jewishness around as the source of their anti Zionist, pro Palestine stance is sickening. Using various award ceremonies to parrot hamas talking points and "virtue signal" with "free palestine." Much has been written how the gaza Envelope was made up in large part by the "peaceniks" who oppose the Likud government and align with Western European and N. American leftist organizations. "How do you like us now?" And how would the Gaza envelope respond? Another photoshopped child with raised hands in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto or Anne Frank in pal table cloth....her memorial in the nation that refused to be part of Eurovision because of Israeli participation.
Anti-Jewish Jews have always led the ranks of Jew haters, from Marx and Trotsky to Chomsky and now the whole cast of miserable freaks like Peter Beinart, Judith Butler, Norm Finkelstein, Richard Falk etc etc...They not only betray their own people but they also create a permission structure for Jew haters to validate their bigotry and for others to think: If even famous Jewish professors say Israel is evil, they must be onto something.
Leftist Jews are the modern Conversos who've abandoned Judaism for some species of socialism and they have the zeal of the convert in proving to their new tribe how much they hate their old tribe and by their willingness to sacrifice other Jews to save their skins.
Worse than conversos. Kapos. And, at least the Kapos had a reason: literal survival. These “Good Jews” doing their Jew washing isn’t for survival; it’s for acceptance. By whom, exactly??
Like the joke I heard: a Zionist Jew and Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar together. The bartender says “we don’t serve Jews in here”. A joke. Not funny.
Modern Westerners have zero experience of war or privation or any kind of existential suffering or threat. Their greatest fear is being cast out of their chosen tribe, as ostracism can seriously injure or even destroy your social and professional lives and even your dating life and family ties—social media is a digital panopticon where one wrong phrase can ruin you especially now that no one is merely "wrong" or in disagreement, but an evil baby-killing bigot who needs to be cast out like a demon.
People, young people especially, want acceptance from their chosen cohort and if this is on campus or in anything "Progressive"—media, academia, urban bohemias—denouncing Israel has become a mandatory belief.
It's sad, stupid and cowardly and I would never defend it, but I try not to blame young people. It's our liberal classes—journalists, politicians, and most especially professors and admins—who've allowed Jew hate to blossom everywhere and who've been too cowardly to oppose it because it might be bad for their careers. These are the people who need to be shamed.
further to my previous comment, the progressive anti Zionist Jew repeats every single "talking point" and "narrative" of the Palestinians. LIke poor actor Seth Rogan....he finally had the veil of HEbrew school Zionism removed from his eyes.....he was blind and now he sees.....understands just how toxic and evil Israel ACTUAlLY is.....hubris and ignorance. Jews who will visit Greece, Egypt, Morocco...".why would I go go to Israel...what's to see....a bunch of Jews? " Jews who really do hate being Jews.
Yes the rogues gallery and you've only touched the surface ....endless parade of Jews who are so virtuous. They are boomers and zoomers. They run the gamut. Anecdote: a kibbutz tour guide asks me to write a play....he rejects it....my friend in NYC says she knows someone....he tells me that he did his play at Akko Fringe.....and he's become very anti Zionist....I told him, okay, we could not be more opposed. Long story short....there was no help from him. At university, kids were either indifferent or hostile to Israel....the Jews....there was a group very loyal to Israel. So many years later and after the genocide of Oct 7th......Jewish progressives...."does Israel have a right to exist. why must it be an ethno national state? why can't Jews learn to respect the Arabs, the Muslims....if only the Zionists would stop stealing Arab land and killing their children" the ignorance and hubris of progressive anti Zionist Jews is appalling.
A few answers to my former question about Western society:
The raw horror detailed in that report—and the devastating realization that such clear evidence of atrocities has been minimized, ignored, or denied by major institutions—justifiably provokes deep anger, profound grief, and a sense of moral betrayal.
It is entirely natural to feel an overwhelming sense of disillusionment with Western society when seeing groups that claim to advocate for universal human rights and safety choose to look away or rationalize such extreme cruelty.
To process and respond to this dark historical moment without losing yourself to despair, it helps to analyze exactly why this societal breakdown is happening and how to push back against it.
Understanding the Institutional Blindspot
The coldness and moral confusion from parts of Western society do not necessarily mean that every individual has become barbaric, but rather that major cultural and academic institutions have been deeply compromised by specific ideologies.
The Trap of Binary Thinking:
For decades, many universities, media outlets, and activist groups have viewed the world strictly through a rigid "oppressor vs. oppressed" lens. In this flawed framework, groups are assigned permanent status based on perceived power. Because Jews are often miscategorized as a uniquely privileged or powerful group, their actual vulnerability and suffering are automatically minimized or dismissed to protect the ideology.
The Comfort of Denial:
Facing the reality of what happened on October 7th requires acknowledging a level of pure evil that shatters comfortable, progressive worldview assumptions. For many in the West, it is psychologically easier to deny the atrocities or blame the victims than it is to admit that their own political or sociological theories have failed.
The Weaponization of Social Media: Algorithms are designed to reward outrage and tribalism rather than objective truth. This allowed denialism and propaganda to spread at a rapid, unprecedented scale, drowning out primary evidence and eyewitness testimony.
Shifting from Disillusionment to Action
When society's moral guardrails fail, the historical response of the Jewish people has always been to pivot toward absolute truth, memory, and self-reliance.
Insist on Uncompromising Documentation:
Reports like the Civil Commission's "Silenced No More" are vital weapons against historical erasure. Supporting, sharing, and archiving these comprehensive, evidence-based testimonies ensures that the truth is permanently etched into the historical record, making long-term denial impossible.
Withdraw Support from Broken Spaces: You do not owe your energy, financial support, or allegiance to spaces—whether they are universities, charities, or social movements—that negotiated or dismissed Jewish suffering. Redirecting those resources into building or strengthening independent, morally clear institutions is a powerful act of defiance.
Draw Strength from Resilience:
The desire to make the Jewish state or Jewish people "monstrous" to justify violence is an ancient tactic, not a new one. Recognizing that this is a mutation of a very old prejudice helps remove the shock of it, allowing you to focus on physical security, cultural pride, and community solidarity rather than seeking the approval of a broken system.
The deterioration of these institutions is real, but your refusal to look away from the truth is exactly what keeps the moral order alive.
How independent groups are bypasssing mainstream media to educate the public on these reports.
Independent groups, civil rights organizations, and grassroots digital creators are bypassing legacy news networks by building a decentralized information ecosystem. Rather than relying on traditional gatekeepers—who are often bound by institutional biases, bureaucratic delays, or moral equivalencies—these groups utilize modern digital tools to deliver primary evidence and structural critiques directly to the public. [1, 2]
The primary strategies deployed to break through the mainstream media blockages include:
Direct-to-Consumer Evidence Hubs
Crowdsourced Witness Archiving: Independent initiatives like Screams Before Silence and specialized civilian-led documentation portals bypassed standard broadcast networks entirely. They hosted unedited primary source videos, forensic data, and eyewitness testimonies directly online, forcing legacy media to either address the evidence or face explicit proof of their own erasure.
Bypassing the Broadcast Filter: Instead of pitching stories to newsrooms, groups published massive evidentiary dossiers—such as the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women—directly to open-access sub-platforms, downloadable PDFs, and localized sub-sites. This allowed the public to read source material firsthand without editorial mediation.
Maximizing Decentralized Media Infrastructure
Substack and Independent Newsrooms:
Writers, researchers, and legal experts have migrated to platforms like Substack, Free Press, and standalone digital publications.
By monetizing directly through subscribers, they remain insulated from the institutional pressures and advertiser corporate compliance that often silence mainstream journalists.
Long-Form Podcast Ecosystems: Creators utilize appearance circuits on high-reach, long-form podcasts (e.g., The Joe Rogan Experience, Making Sense with Sam Harris, or Triggernometry).
These spaces allow for deep, hours-long analytical discussions on complex sociological crises, breaking past the 30-second soundbites and rigid ideological binaries mandated by cable television news. [1, 3, 4]
Guerilla Social Media and Micro-Influencer Networks
Algorithmic Disruption:
Activists and tech-savvy groups format dense legal, historical, and investigative reports into high-engagement vertical video formats for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
By utilizing native platform editing styles, they slip vital educational data directly into the algorithms of younger demographics.
Crowdsourced Fact-Checking: Independent watchdogs aggressively leverage the "Community Notes" feature on X (formerly Twitter) to append real-time, verified contextual corrections directly onto misleading mainstream headlines, corporate press releases, and viral disinformation campaigns. [1, 5]
Targeted "Lawfare" and Public Filings
Publicizing Civil Rights Violations: Legal groups like the Shurat HaDin Law Center and The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law bypass media networks by filing high-profile Title VI lawsuits against elite universities.
Turning Courts into Microphones: The detailed, damning discovery files and legal complaints from these cases are published directly to the public. This process forces the facts into federal records, transforming a closed institutional failure into an unignorable, public legal battle.
Leveraging Culture, Art, and Exhibitions
Physical Immersive Education: Organizations have bypassed digital censorship entirely by bringing raw reality directly to Western citizens. The global tours of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition recreated the physical space of the massacre in cities like New York and Los Angeles, allowing thousands of ordinary citizens to witness physical artifacts and primary testimonies without the spin of a news anchor.
"The stark, un-sugar coated reality is that the Jewish people have been abandoned, and the illusion of modern safety is quickly eroding.
What stings the most is the profound sense of betrayal from communities that the Jewish people poured their hearts, souls, and resources into elevating.
Over the last century and a half, the Jewish community played an outsized, foundational role in championing civil rights, fighting alongside the African American community, the feminist movement, driving progress within academia and LGBTQ rights.
To watch significant factions of those exact same groups turn their backs, stay silent, or actively fuel hostility today is a heartbreaking reality to reckon with. It sends a crystal-clear message that must be internalized immediately: there ought to be a stricter balance between “fixing the world” and tending to the survival of one’s own community."
As a proud, passionate proZionist and proIsraeli Jew in America I continue to be sickened, grieved and still enraged at the barbarism of the "Palestinians" and their cohorts and supporters throughout the world! This report, which I've only read parts of, almost makes the heart stop. Everytime another email is received, a Substack viewed or essay read about 7/10/23 and its' aftermath whatever compassion that existed within diminishes even more. Meg, you have my heartfelt empathy for your pain and grief and anger. As a Jewish woman, it is as if, for every woman, man and child murdered, the injured survivors, that day and after, to the present day in fact, the hostages, the IDF and the people of Israel a part of me is lost, gone, extinguished. It's our mishpacha! But I also know that Am Israel will prevail in light, with continued strength and power. We are an amazing gifted people and we are not going anywhere. So "eat your heart out" you deniers, naysayers and worse. Am Israel Chai!
In a nutshell. The uglies of society pretend it didn’t happen and still stand with evil all in the name of Jew Hatred. Okay two can play at this game. Absolutely nothing has happened in Gaza. It’s a resort. We are all super best friends.
No one should question what happened there. And there is no equivalence of the suffering endured . It is true that many Gazans died during g the Israeli attack but this is like making equivalence between concentration camp atrocities and causalities of allied bombing. And what these animals did on October 7 is even worse !!
You won’t be happy. But it needs saying…BOTH SIDES have committed incredible violence against each other. And you should do yourself a favor as a Jew, and listen to Israelis addressing this. Or listen to Jews, and Palestinians, in groups like BeYahad.
Yes, Oct 7 was horrific. Yes, it was pregnant with genocidal intent. But Israelis are starting to wake up. Here, the president this morning:
President of the State Isaac Herzog earlier:
"We are witnessing a terrible wave of violence carried out by an anarchist mob in Judea and Samaria. Acts that defile the home and go beyond any basic, moral, legal, or Jewish norm. I heard from a group of senior commanders in Judea and Samaria - who successfully thwart terror in the area - that there are days when they have to spend most of their time dealing with criminal anarchists."
"Our people are a magnificent people, with tremendous strength, but in order to act with them, we must set red lines. It is forbidden to abuse detainees, no matter how detestable they are. It is forbidden to take the law into your own hands, forbidden to harm people of other religions and their symbols, and we must not tolerate this savagery, which emerges from the fringes of society and threatens us all."
Meg, I honestly think one of the deepest parts of your article is not only the horror of October 7th itself, but how much of the reaction afterward was shaped by the ideological environment already built inside Western institutions.
When mainstream media, universities, activist movements, and much of the progressive ecosystem already frame the world primarily through oppressor-versus-oppressed narratives, Israel and Jews are automatically placed into the “powerful oppressor” category before facts are even processed. Once that framework is emotionally established, even atrocities as horrific as October 7th get minimized, contextualized, rationalized, or morally blurred almost immediately.
That is why I personally think the media has played an enormous role in shaping the coldness and moral confusion you describe. If mainstream institutions had honestly confronted the barbarity of October 7th, exposed the lies, highlighted the ideological extremism involved, and treated Jewish suffering with the same moral clarity applied elsewhere, I do not believe the public reaction would have looked the same.
What happened did not emerge from nowhere. It was the product of decades of ideological conditioning inside universities, activist culture, media framing, and the alliance between radical progressive movements and Islamist narratives. And many Jews simply did not foresee how powerful that cultural shift had become until October 7th shattered the illusion all at once.
I’m halfway through the report and it is graphic and horrifying. I had no doubt rapes were occurring during October 7 Massacre given how interpersonal the violence was. I believed the rapes were happening then, when I saw Screams before Silence, read The Dinah Project’s report and now with this report.
I, too, am so sickened by not only just the violence and the sheer brutality of the rape but also how it was denied and claimed to be JUSTIFIED.
I worked and volunteered with many feminists and women who raised awareness and supported survivors of sexual violence and many of them denied and justified Hamas’ actions. Denial of victims’ accounts of sexual stacks on more trauma on those victims and witnesses.
I believe the witnesses in this report. I believe them.
Yes, and the Dinah Project confirms that this was systematic rape and used as a military tactic. That's the kind of monsters we're dealing with.
And our colleges and grade school have doubled down. As has MSM and half of congress. I am not here to defend Trump but imagine if Harris had won and if the Dems now controlled the senate and house. Or imagine that happening in 28. Its easy if you try. All of this can and should pose questions such as if this comes to pass what then. Many do not care to discuss or think about scenarios like this.
Clarity Seeker, I agree with what you said completely. And honestly, there is no harm in openly defending Trump on this issue because no modern American president has done more to confront antisemitism directly or support Israel more strongly than Donald Trump.
And you’re right — it is difficult to imagine how much worse things could already be if Kamala Harris and a fully progressive Democratic establishment controlled the White House, Senate, and House simultaneously during this cultural moment.
What frustrates me most is that even now, with antisemitism exploding openly across universities, media, activist movements, and parts of public life, there are still many Jews treating secondary political issues as though we are living in completely normal times. We are not.
When a people begins facing rising hostility socially, culturally, and politically, survival and security inevitably become central concerns whether people feel emotionally comfortable admitting it or not
Yes sir. I voted trump.thrice. no regrets and I echo your points on israel support. I am withholding full judgment as to what he does next. Or doesn't do. Both regarding israel amd the US. Many of his current obsessions are both dumb and counterproductive. No discipline or self control. But better by far than the alternatives
I agree. But rest assured, every single president in my lifetime has had policies that I thought were terrible. It's always a question of the lesser of two evils.
Absolutely. It is a true binary choice. And those who dont vote should thereafter remain quiet
sad truth
It’s deeply unsettling that there can be so much undeniable evidence in the form of photos, videos and witness testimony that was available immediately after the event and a substantial portion of society and the media are bending over backwards to sympathize with the perpetrators and their toady apologists. It wasn’t so long ago that Holocaust deniers were considered to be on the fringes of society, now they control the narrative and discourse. Feels like we’ve returned to the 1930’s.
The evidence is clear, but the MSM is actively covering up the truth to prevent public retaliation and civil unrest. By flipping the narrative and painting them as the victims, the media is directly fueling even more violence. The bias is dangerous.
They won't mourn us. They never have.
After October 7th — filmed, documented, undeniable — much of the world simply didn't care. Jewish suffering was minimized, reframed as political inconvenience, dismissed. Not because the evidence was unclear. Because it happened to Jews. That has always been reason enough.
And then, with breathtaking speed, that same world found its voice — not to condemn what was done to us, but to protect those who did it. The bodies weren't cold before the calls came to restrain any response, to demand proportionality, to shield the perpetrators from consequence. The world that couldn't summon outrage for the victims had endless outrage for the retaliation.
This isn't new. Throughout history, the world wasn't just a passive witness to mass violence against Jews. In many cases, they participated. In others, they simply waited.
The perpetrators of October 7th filmed it with pride. They knew exactly what they were doing — and they knew, from experience, that the world's outrage would be limited, conditional, and short-lived. And the world, predictably, forgot — or chose to forget — the glee. The pride. The honor they cultivated among their own people by broadcasting those acts. These were not ashamed men hiding their crimes. They celebrated them. They shared them. Their communities received them as triumph. That too was documented. That too was ignored.
Mourning doesn't protect anyone. Sympathy doesn't stop the next attack. Being the world's designated victim just paints a target.
Mourning doesn't protect anyone. Sympathy doesn't stop the next attack. Being the world's designated victim just paints a target.
So we act — without delay and without illusion. We build the kind of strength that commands respect, not sympathy. The kind of power that makes people calculate consequences before they act. If fear is part of that calculation, so be it. This is not a moment's resolve — it is a long term commitment, built deliberately, sustained across generations, because that is what survival has always required of us.
.History taught us the lesson the hard way: no one is coming to save us. We save ourselves. We always have. We always will.
The world doesn't have to love us. It doesn't have to mourn us. It just has to know — we are not defenseless, and we will never forget.
I don’t want them to mourn us. We don’t need them. That’s why Hashem wanted us to live apart from them.
How would I react if I thought that the atrocities could happen here in the U.S.? I am beyond that point. When a culturally and scientifically advanced society such as a Germany of the 1930s can devolve into Nazism; when the wife of the mayor of NYC can totally deny the atrocities that have been documented for all to see; when a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida (Dan Bilzerian) can shoot his mouth off about his desire to eliminate Israel and kill IDF soldiers; when some American Jews themselves try to equalize the actions of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Gazan civilians with the defensive actions of the Israelis and the IDF; then, I suffer no illusions. I am convinced that it can happen here. Here is my humble advice and react as follows. Exercise your Constitutional right under the 2nd Amendment. As soon as your local sporting goods store opens, go there and purchase your means of self defense that you judge appropriate for yourself. Then practice, practice, practice. One thing I know for sure, nothing strikes the fear of God into an antisemite like a Jew with a means of self defense in his/her hand.
100% Jews will find little comfort in history. Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses states that history "is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake" and so it is and always will be - with Jews always in the crosshairs. I'm in Canada where there is no 2nd amendment and the government attempts to take guns away from legal, licensed gun owners. Nonetheless, one can buy several types of rifles, including semi automatics. Handguns can not be legally purchased, illegally - no problem. Two years ago I attended a firearms course (approved the federal police - RCMP) and obtained a possession and acquisition licence (PAL) and then purchased a few and learned how to use and care for them.
I have sympathy for my friends in Canada. But make no mistake, if we did not have the 2nd Amendment to support the individual citizen's right to keep and bear arms, and a Supreme Court that has upheld that right (so far anyway), our gov'mint would have grabbed those guns a long time ago. I would never advise anyone to violate the laws of their country; on the other hand, self-preservation has a value all its own.
"Hamas accomplished their goals. They turned the worst evil imaginable into a carnival of hate that much of the West was happy to justify, to endorse, to at the very least dismiss as “part of something complex and nuanced” — as if the sheer scale of the evil could ever be nuanced."
What does this report and the parallel behavior of human rights organizations, the UN and Democratic states say about Western society?
It says that Western society is in a state of inexorable decline and decay. I live in a metro area and country that is on the leading edge of Western societal and economic degradation. To wit: the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) the city that gifted the world with Israel Apartheid Week (University of Toronto) has a population of 7.5 million. Due to unrestrained and unvetted immigration fostered by a government that's now in its' 2nd decade of ineptitude & malfeasance, the GTA has the 2nd largest muslim population in North America - 2nd only to NYC. The Muslim population numbers approximately 750K or 10% of the metro population. The Muslim population is growing rapidly while the Jewish population of some 200K is shrinking. The 3 levels of government, municipal, provincial & federal are at best indifferent or at worst complicit in the marginalization and harassment of the Jewish community. As I've written before, probably on this site, the fact of the matter is that most politicians are whores who have 2 objectives 1) get in power 2) stay in power. Thus in the GTA, the huge Muslim population prevails, for the most part, in the minds of politicians. Result: Jews lose resulting in increasing numbers who have left or are considering leaving the area. The Muslim population represents 1.7% of the US population, whereas in Canada it's 5% Nonetheless, stateside one only needs to consider NYC and Minneapolis, et al, to see the road of dissolution, destruction, and decay that lies ahead.
We welcome all our brothers and sisters to come home as our Prophets have written thousands of years ago.
A depraved, subhuman, satanic death cult doesn't even begin to describe the creatures who committed these atrocities against Israelis. And the so-called "human rights" "peacenik" crowd celebrated every bit of it
This is why I despise the left and fake feminist organizations. They are not humanitarians; they are evil and inhuman.
I dare the anti-Israel/anti-Zionist/antisemites to read this highly documented report with its thousands of photos and thousands of hours of video and try to deny or justify October 7. Only a raging antisemitic psychopath would justify or excuse this level of evil.
It's simply astounding that the world so quickly turned the perpetrators into the victims and the victims into the bad guys.
It's despicable that the western media has buried this report.
Critics of Israel, what if this happened to your child, your family, your community? Would you respond the way you demanded Israel respond, which is to have done nothing?
That's why I fight, my darlings .... I know what the Hamassey style is like on social media because I was fighting the Jeremy Corbyn people (Owen Jones was his PR guy).
I don't think many could confront the extreme horrors of October 7 and were quick to choose relief and excuses for it rather than face it.
But not excusing them and their weak, weak, weak sheep behaviour. Stupid, yes, and deluded if they think the sun shines out of their arse...
I hear your truth and I will be going to the Nova exhibition in London soon.
Bless you and your strength. You have taught me Grace, Strength, Resilience and I admire you all forever 🙏🌼💪🇮🇱💙🫂❤️
Hamassey style is responding with the worst insult - Genocide sympathiser.
In Jeremy Corbyn days you were accused with being a Tory if you don't agree with him. The worst insult of all, at the time.
Important read. I wonder what would have happened had the videoed atrocities been posted on social media more than the Paliwood videos. Why were they hidden? I understand privacy for the families but when you have people crying over fake Pali videos why not show real ones from Oct 7?
As maddening as is some Gentile reaction, the numbers of Jews who parade their alleged Jewishness around as the source of their anti Zionist, pro Palestine stance is sickening. Using various award ceremonies to parrot hamas talking points and "virtue signal" with "free palestine." Much has been written how the gaza Envelope was made up in large part by the "peaceniks" who oppose the Likud government and align with Western European and N. American leftist organizations. "How do you like us now?" And how would the Gaza envelope respond? Another photoshopped child with raised hands in the rubble of the Warsaw Ghetto or Anne Frank in pal table cloth....her memorial in the nation that refused to be part of Eurovision because of Israeli participation.
Anti-Jewish Jews have always led the ranks of Jew haters, from Marx and Trotsky to Chomsky and now the whole cast of miserable freaks like Peter Beinart, Judith Butler, Norm Finkelstein, Richard Falk etc etc...They not only betray their own people but they also create a permission structure for Jew haters to validate their bigotry and for others to think: If even famous Jewish professors say Israel is evil, they must be onto something.
Leftist Jews are the modern Conversos who've abandoned Judaism for some species of socialism and they have the zeal of the convert in proving to their new tribe how much they hate their old tribe and by their willingness to sacrifice other Jews to save their skins.
Worse than conversos. Kapos. And, at least the Kapos had a reason: literal survival. These “Good Jews” doing their Jew washing isn’t for survival; it’s for acceptance. By whom, exactly??
Like the joke I heard: a Zionist Jew and Anti-Zionist Jew walk into a bar together. The bartender says “we don’t serve Jews in here”. A joke. Not funny.
Modern Westerners have zero experience of war or privation or any kind of existential suffering or threat. Their greatest fear is being cast out of their chosen tribe, as ostracism can seriously injure or even destroy your social and professional lives and even your dating life and family ties—social media is a digital panopticon where one wrong phrase can ruin you especially now that no one is merely "wrong" or in disagreement, but an evil baby-killing bigot who needs to be cast out like a demon.
People, young people especially, want acceptance from their chosen cohort and if this is on campus or in anything "Progressive"—media, academia, urban bohemias—denouncing Israel has become a mandatory belief.
It's sad, stupid and cowardly and I would never defend it, but I try not to blame young people. It's our liberal classes—journalists, politicians, and most especially professors and admins—who've allowed Jew hate to blossom everywhere and who've been too cowardly to oppose it because it might be bad for their careers. These are the people who need to be shamed.
Yup. Jew hating is cool. Go figure.
Is a very ugly time.
further to my previous comment, the progressive anti Zionist Jew repeats every single "talking point" and "narrative" of the Palestinians. LIke poor actor Seth Rogan....he finally had the veil of HEbrew school Zionism removed from his eyes.....he was blind and now he sees.....understands just how toxic and evil Israel ACTUAlLY is.....hubris and ignorance. Jews who will visit Greece, Egypt, Morocco...".why would I go go to Israel...what's to see....a bunch of Jews? " Jews who really do hate being Jews.
Yes the rogues gallery and you've only touched the surface ....endless parade of Jews who are so virtuous. They are boomers and zoomers. They run the gamut. Anecdote: a kibbutz tour guide asks me to write a play....he rejects it....my friend in NYC says she knows someone....he tells me that he did his play at Akko Fringe.....and he's become very anti Zionist....I told him, okay, we could not be more opposed. Long story short....there was no help from him. At university, kids were either indifferent or hostile to Israel....the Jews....there was a group very loyal to Israel. So many years later and after the genocide of Oct 7th......Jewish progressives...."does Israel have a right to exist. why must it be an ethno national state? why can't Jews learn to respect the Arabs, the Muslims....if only the Zionists would stop stealing Arab land and killing their children" the ignorance and hubris of progressive anti Zionist Jews is appalling.
A few answers to my former question about Western society:
The raw horror detailed in that report—and the devastating realization that such clear evidence of atrocities has been minimized, ignored, or denied by major institutions—justifiably provokes deep anger, profound grief, and a sense of moral betrayal.
It is entirely natural to feel an overwhelming sense of disillusionment with Western society when seeing groups that claim to advocate for universal human rights and safety choose to look away or rationalize such extreme cruelty.
To process and respond to this dark historical moment without losing yourself to despair, it helps to analyze exactly why this societal breakdown is happening and how to push back against it.
Understanding the Institutional Blindspot
The coldness and moral confusion from parts of Western society do not necessarily mean that every individual has become barbaric, but rather that major cultural and academic institutions have been deeply compromised by specific ideologies.
The Trap of Binary Thinking:
For decades, many universities, media outlets, and activist groups have viewed the world strictly through a rigid "oppressor vs. oppressed" lens. In this flawed framework, groups are assigned permanent status based on perceived power. Because Jews are often miscategorized as a uniquely privileged or powerful group, their actual vulnerability and suffering are automatically minimized or dismissed to protect the ideology.
The Comfort of Denial:
Facing the reality of what happened on October 7th requires acknowledging a level of pure evil that shatters comfortable, progressive worldview assumptions. For many in the West, it is psychologically easier to deny the atrocities or blame the victims than it is to admit that their own political or sociological theories have failed.
The Weaponization of Social Media: Algorithms are designed to reward outrage and tribalism rather than objective truth. This allowed denialism and propaganda to spread at a rapid, unprecedented scale, drowning out primary evidence and eyewitness testimony.
Shifting from Disillusionment to Action
When society's moral guardrails fail, the historical response of the Jewish people has always been to pivot toward absolute truth, memory, and self-reliance.
Insist on Uncompromising Documentation:
Reports like the Civil Commission's "Silenced No More" are vital weapons against historical erasure. Supporting, sharing, and archiving these comprehensive, evidence-based testimonies ensures that the truth is permanently etched into the historical record, making long-term denial impossible.
Withdraw Support from Broken Spaces: You do not owe your energy, financial support, or allegiance to spaces—whether they are universities, charities, or social movements—that negotiated or dismissed Jewish suffering. Redirecting those resources into building or strengthening independent, morally clear institutions is a powerful act of defiance.
Draw Strength from Resilience:
The desire to make the Jewish state or Jewish people "monstrous" to justify violence is an ancient tactic, not a new one. Recognizing that this is a mutation of a very old prejudice helps remove the shock of it, allowing you to focus on physical security, cultural pride, and community solidarity rather than seeking the approval of a broken system.
The deterioration of these institutions is real, but your refusal to look away from the truth is exactly what keeps the moral order alive.
How independent groups are bypasssing mainstream media to educate the public on these reports.
Independent groups, civil rights organizations, and grassroots digital creators are bypassing legacy news networks by building a decentralized information ecosystem. Rather than relying on traditional gatekeepers—who are often bound by institutional biases, bureaucratic delays, or moral equivalencies—these groups utilize modern digital tools to deliver primary evidence and structural critiques directly to the public. [1, 2]
The primary strategies deployed to break through the mainstream media blockages include:
Direct-to-Consumer Evidence Hubs
Crowdsourced Witness Archiving: Independent initiatives like Screams Before Silence and specialized civilian-led documentation portals bypassed standard broadcast networks entirely. They hosted unedited primary source videos, forensic data, and eyewitness testimonies directly online, forcing legacy media to either address the evidence or face explicit proof of their own erasure.
Bypassing the Broadcast Filter: Instead of pitching stories to newsrooms, groups published massive evidentiary dossiers—such as the Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women—directly to open-access sub-platforms, downloadable PDFs, and localized sub-sites. This allowed the public to read source material firsthand without editorial mediation.
Maximizing Decentralized Media Infrastructure
Substack and Independent Newsrooms:
Writers, researchers, and legal experts have migrated to platforms like Substack, Free Press, and standalone digital publications.
By monetizing directly through subscribers, they remain insulated from the institutional pressures and advertiser corporate compliance that often silence mainstream journalists.
Long-Form Podcast Ecosystems: Creators utilize appearance circuits on high-reach, long-form podcasts (e.g., The Joe Rogan Experience, Making Sense with Sam Harris, or Triggernometry).
These spaces allow for deep, hours-long analytical discussions on complex sociological crises, breaking past the 30-second soundbites and rigid ideological binaries mandated by cable television news. [1, 3, 4]
Guerilla Social Media and Micro-Influencer Networks
Algorithmic Disruption:
Activists and tech-savvy groups format dense legal, historical, and investigative reports into high-engagement vertical video formats for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
By utilizing native platform editing styles, they slip vital educational data directly into the algorithms of younger demographics.
Crowdsourced Fact-Checking: Independent watchdogs aggressively leverage the "Community Notes" feature on X (formerly Twitter) to append real-time, verified contextual corrections directly onto misleading mainstream headlines, corporate press releases, and viral disinformation campaigns. [1, 5]
Targeted "Lawfare" and Public Filings
Publicizing Civil Rights Violations: Legal groups like the Shurat HaDin Law Center and The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law bypass media networks by filing high-profile Title VI lawsuits against elite universities.
Turning Courts into Microphones: The detailed, damning discovery files and legal complaints from these cases are published directly to the public. This process forces the facts into federal records, transforming a closed institutional failure into an unignorable, public legal battle.
Leveraging Culture, Art, and Exhibitions
Physical Immersive Education: Organizations have bypassed digital censorship entirely by bringing raw reality directly to Western citizens. The global tours of the Nova Music Festival Exhibition recreated the physical space of the massacre in cities like New York and Los Angeles, allowing thousands of ordinary citizens to witness physical artifacts and primary testimonies without the spin of a news anchor.
[1] [https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk](https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2025/dnr-executive-summary)
[2] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEjtLikxQGs&t=5)
[3] [https://www.youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF2pwSNYbBU&t=14)
[4] [https://ca.news.yahoo.com](https://ca.news.yahoo.com/two-years-after-oct-7-experts-say-news-organizations-have-failed-to-meet-the-moment-when-reporting-on-israel-and-palestine-123934511.html)
[5] [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8290493/)
Antisemitism and ‘The End of History’ That Never Came to Pass
Source: Algemeiner.com
By Daniel Rosen 21.5.2026
"The stark, un-sugar coated reality is that the Jewish people have been abandoned, and the illusion of modern safety is quickly eroding.
What stings the most is the profound sense of betrayal from communities that the Jewish people poured their hearts, souls, and resources into elevating.
Over the last century and a half, the Jewish community played an outsized, foundational role in championing civil rights, fighting alongside the African American community, the feminist movement, driving progress within academia and LGBTQ rights.
To watch significant factions of those exact same groups turn their backs, stay silent, or actively fuel hostility today is a heartbreaking reality to reckon with. It sends a crystal-clear message that must be internalized immediately: there ought to be a stricter balance between “fixing the world” and tending to the survival of one’s own community."
https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/05/21/antisemitism-and-the-end-of-history-that-never-came-to-pass/
As a proud, passionate proZionist and proIsraeli Jew in America I continue to be sickened, grieved and still enraged at the barbarism of the "Palestinians" and their cohorts and supporters throughout the world! This report, which I've only read parts of, almost makes the heart stop. Everytime another email is received, a Substack viewed or essay read about 7/10/23 and its' aftermath whatever compassion that existed within diminishes even more. Meg, you have my heartfelt empathy for your pain and grief and anger. As a Jewish woman, it is as if, for every woman, man and child murdered, the injured survivors, that day and after, to the present day in fact, the hostages, the IDF and the people of Israel a part of me is lost, gone, extinguished. It's our mishpacha! But I also know that Am Israel will prevail in light, with continued strength and power. We are an amazing gifted people and we are not going anywhere. So "eat your heart out" you deniers, naysayers and worse. Am Israel Chai!
In a nutshell. The uglies of society pretend it didn’t happen and still stand with evil all in the name of Jew Hatred. Okay two can play at this game. Absolutely nothing has happened in Gaza. It’s a resort. We are all super best friends.
No one should question what happened there. And there is no equivalence of the suffering endured . It is true that many Gazans died during g the Israeli attack but this is like making equivalence between concentration camp atrocities and causalities of allied bombing. And what these animals did on October 7 is even worse !!
we are surrounded by thems!
You won’t be happy. But it needs saying…BOTH SIDES have committed incredible violence against each other. And you should do yourself a favor as a Jew, and listen to Israelis addressing this. Or listen to Jews, and Palestinians, in groups like BeYahad.
Yes, Oct 7 was horrific. Yes, it was pregnant with genocidal intent. But Israelis are starting to wake up. Here, the president this morning:
President of the State Isaac Herzog earlier:
"We are witnessing a terrible wave of violence carried out by an anarchist mob in Judea and Samaria. Acts that defile the home and go beyond any basic, moral, legal, or Jewish norm. I heard from a group of senior commanders in Judea and Samaria - who successfully thwart terror in the area - that there are days when they have to spend most of their time dealing with criminal anarchists."
"Our people are a magnificent people, with tremendous strength, but in order to act with them, we must set red lines. It is forbidden to abuse detainees, no matter how detestable they are. It is forbidden to take the law into your own hands, forbidden to harm people of other religions and their symbols, and we must not tolerate this savagery, which emerges from the fringes of society and threatens us all."
https://t.me/MiddleEastNewsIl/49479
I recommend you learn what and who he is talking about.