To watch the mobile phone footage and hear the testimony of survivors is to have one’s own faith in humanity tested to the point of destruction. Parents murdered in front of their children. Women and girls raped as their family members were forced to watch, powerless to intercede. The elderly abducted and taken into captivity. The depravity of the Hamas attack a year ago today cannot be overstated. It was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Yet instead of universal condemnation of the terrorists alongside sympathy for the victims and that most cherished of progressive mantras, “solidarity”, Jews in Britain and around the world have faced an unprecedented eruption in hatred. Indeed, it began on October 7 itself, as Israelis were still being butchered by Hamas and the Israeli Defence Force was yet to even respond.
