Today, October 7, is the third anniversary of the massacre in Northern Israel, when hamas terrorists killed, mutilated, raped, beheaded and tortured over 1,200 men, women and children, most of them civilians, took over 250 hostages, and used victims’ own cell phones to send videos of their most gruesome actions, such as beheadings of babies, to family members and friends.
Is this a cause to celebrate? For some, the answer is yes.
A truly sickening post at MEMRI.org: describes the joyous celebrations of this carnage being held around the world.
Ditto for today’s editorial in the New York Post, which starts with this:
It’s nightmarishly grotesque, and horribly revealing, that crowds will gather in New York and other cities on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 atrocities to celebrate the mass slaughter of Israelis by the “Islamic Resistance Movement,” a k a Hamas.
Not to protest Israel’s actions before, during or since the war those attacks began, but to cheer the 6,000 or so who invaded the Jewish state to kill, rape and kidnap civilian kibbutzim and dance-festival ravers — and filmed it all, instantly sharing it with their victims’ families and the world.
Why else gather on this day, the high mark for the terrorists and their cause?
The organizers, including the “youth section” of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s beloved Democratic Socialists of America, say it’s because the date “marks three years since resistance against imperialism changed the fate of our world forever.”
Again, the “resistance” that day was purely a matter of terrorizing innocents, and Hamas’ least-shameful actions since amount to nothing but losing to the Israeli forces that moved into Gaza to recover the hostages and smash the terror infrastructure.
And then we have this, excerpted from Michael Goodwin’s commentary for the New York Post:
Jew-hating radicals are celebrating the horrors of Oct. 7 — and organizing parades full of monsters
At first glance, the announcement is a head-scratcher. Then it hits you like a sledge-hammer: These people really are monsters.
Not so long ago, calling them antisemites would have been a sufficiently complete description of their sickness. But over the last three years, their ilk has crossed that line so many times that the word no longer comes close to capturing the full extent of their venality.
These are not your ordinary Jew haters. These are Nazi wannabes in search of their Hitler.
And now they are planning a New York City protest on Oct. 7, the third anniversary of the invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists.
For a fleeting second, I had foolishly dared to hope the protest would be a denunciation of the beasts who carried out the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians. Women and children were raped, murdered and mutilated in a frenzy of satanic bloodlust.
Hostages, some seriously injured, were stolen from their homes and taken to the hellholes of Gaza — after being paraded publicly through the streets where Palestinian civilians, including children, celebrated the orgy of Jewish blood.
And now those horrors are to be celebrated again in an event I never considered to be within the realm of possibility.
It is a plan to praise and glorify the deadliest day for Jews since the end of the Holocaust.
Groups calling themselves “anti-Zionists” say they will mark the event with rallies in Gotham and many other cities around the world.
In effect, they aim to turn Oct. 7 into an international day of joyful celebration of the butchers who carried out the initial attack, and hail their ultimate cause of eliminating the Jewish state.
There you have it. An international celebration of the mutilation, torture, rape and death of people – almost all civilian and many non-Jewish – whose “crimes” were being in Israel at a dance festival or leading peaceful lives in a village/kibbutz.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; after 58 centuries of this, Jews should not be surprised. There is no such thing as “Never again”. There is always an “again”. And, as Jews, we should – must – always remember this.
One other point to be made here: Election day is coming, and there are candidates running for office who have varying degrees of sympathy for today’s “celebrations”. May all voters who have even the most minimal sense of decency, whether Jewish or not, incorporate today’s “celebrations” and who is/is not in sympathy with them, into their voting decision.
