I Stand with Palestine: A historic win for the Palestinian resistance and an unprecedented anticolonial struggle in Palestine, as stated by Misha Shulman
On Tuesday evening, I was drinking on the porch of my friend and neighbor Misha Shulman, the Israel-born rabbi of a progressive New York synagogue called the New Shul. He was talking to people who were distraught over mass kidnappings and massacres in Israel. Of all the people he spoke to, he said, those most devastated were either people who had lost close friends or family, or young Jews “completely shattered by the response of their lefty friends in New York,” who were either justifying Hamas’s atrocities or celebrating them outright.
You probably have seen some examples. There was a statement made by the national committee of Students for Justice in Palestine which said, ‘Today, we witness a historic win for the Palestinian resistance’. New York’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America promoted a rally where speakers applauded the attacks, and the Connecticut D.S.A. enthused, “Yesterday, the Palestinian resistance launched an unprecedented anticolonial struggle.” The president of the N.Y.U. student bar association withdrew his job offer after writing in the newsletter that he would not condemn Palestinian resistance. Over the otherwise benign slogan, I stand with Palestine. Matter Chicago posted a photo of a figure in a paraglider like those Hamas used to descend on a desert rave and turn it into a killing field.
Dissent and Israel: How Hersh and I were touched by the loss of a Holocaust-relaxed U.S. citizen
Joshua Leifer, a contributing editor and member of the editorial board of Dissent, was surprised by the indifference to human suffering.
Hersh, a U.S. citizen, was then ordered into a pickup truck by armed Hamas terrorists and driven to the Gaza border. The police told us the last known location of his mobile phone was on the Gaza border early Saturday afternoon.
The only thing I know is that this is not the fate that Hersh or any of the captives, among whom are several other Americans, deserves. I am devastated, but the messages of support made this moment very touching.
The outreach from these German friends resonates with me especially because Hersh is named after my grandfather Harold and my great-uncle Hershel, who was killed in the Holocaust. It was beautiful for me to be reminded, through these friendships, that for young Germans and Jews particularly, the world that Hersh has lived in has recognized and worked to overcome the terror experienced by my great-uncle.