On the third anniversary of 10/7
On this anniversary there are many articles reflecting on the intervening three years and what we have learned.
In some ways, the post-10/7 wars have gone better than expected for Israel. At the beginning, it seemed as though Hezbollah, for example, would be a more formidable foe than it has been. That doesn’t mean it’s been easy, or that Israel can ever rest. But it does mean that 10/7 acted more as a wakeup call to galvanize Israel into taking the threats seriously and understanding that its enemies really do mean to destroy it.
Unfortunately, another thing that’s been learned is how powerful Jew-hatred is, including when it’s cloaked in a fake “anti-Zionism” that is nothing more than a vicious double standard that will not allow Israel to defend itself. This did not begin on 10/7; I’ve written two posts so far about how far back it goes, and how instrumental the Soviets were in spreading the word (please see this as well as this).
The anti-Jewish forces got busy right away, as early as 10/8 when Israel had done nothing as yet except be viciously attacked. But Jew-hatred always finds fertile ground, and it has spread immensely since 10/7, both on left and right. A lie really does get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. It is sobering and depressing, but it’s reality these days.
Has there ever been a people more frequently or more preposterously lied about than the Jews?
I don’t ask that in expectation of sympathy. It’s perversely flattering to excite the sort of malign curiosity that cannot be satisfied by what’s observably true. But there’s also been a heavy price to pay for being a figment of such superstitious fear and loathing that even the presence of Jews isn’t necessary for fear and loathing to take root and flourish. Distant hearsay can be enough. …
… [F]olklore hasn’t quite given up on the figure of the Wandering Jew, cursed to roam the earth homeless as punishment for taunting Jesus on the way to the crucifixion. Long before academic anti-Zionists began to call for the expulsion of Israelis from Israel, Luther had posited their eternal exile as an expression, sanctioned by God, of their vagabondage of soul. And as for the Jew as companion of the devil, not to say the devil himself, I can personally vouch for the tenacity of that superstition, as more than one of my schoolfellows have asked—in Prestwich, north Manchester, England, 1954—if I would show them what remained of my tail.
Regarding the Blood Libel, the malicious medieval defamation that told of Jews kidnapping and killing Gentile children for their blood, either to add zest to matzah or to replenish the blood of male Jews who menstruated profusely as a consequence of circumcision—another fantasy, too lurid and deranged to be simply called a falsehood—it too has resurfaced in recent years, determining the way the deaths of Palestinian children in the latest Gaza war have been presented as the result of Israel Defense Forces soldiers killing little ones “for sport” and laughing as they do so. No footage of such vile behavior exists, of course. I myself was widely misreported as arguing, in a piece in the [London] Observer a couple of years ago, that the press should cover up all word of such deaths. In fact, I argued for no such thing, nor would the left-leaning Observer have printed the piece had its staff thought that was my meaning. My target was the narrative strategy of the BBC and other news outlets, in which nine stories out of 10 led with the latest death count of Palestinian children—too cruel had they been even a quarter true, but which time and again proved unverifiable.
The charge of genocide leveled at Israel, a charge that invariably comes with the pseudo-authoritative definite article—the genocide, to muffle dissent and to rejig the hierarchy of genocides in favor of Israel’s victims—could be said to be the biggest lie of all.
And an extremely successful lie, at that. On the left in the 2026 election in the US, it is almost required that a Democrat candidate support the claim. The right – or the former right, such as Tucker Carlson – has its adherents, as well.
Powerline has this post of remembrance. The stories remain heartbreaking, just like the 9/11 stories. But there is no going back and undoing what happened. The only way is to go forward. But how to do that in the face of the remarkable moral inversion of much of the world? Here is a comment there which deals with that question:
The most stunning thing to me is the response of Western Civilization to the horrendous Satanic acts of Hamas on October 7th. In a functional, optimistic and honorable civilization, our collective response should have been total commitment to the eradication of Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamism in general. Sadly, the opposite has happened. Many (mostly European) countries have doubled down on Jew hatred, admiration for the sub-human “palestinian cause” and total fecklessness in the face of their suicidal choices of importing millions of proto-terrorists into their own countries.
Israel and the United States of America* have stood virtually alone against the creeping scourge of “submission”.
And there’s this, on Britain’s Green Party:
‘Tell me what you accuse the Jews of [and] I’ll tell you what you are guilty of’, said the great Soviet writer Vasily Grossman. Today, that grim, eternal truth was starkly illustrated by the Green Party’s passing of a motion saying ‘Zionism is Racism’. To throw around the word ‘racism’ even as you single out Jewish sovereignty as uniquely demonic, to pose as an enemy of bigotry even as you dream of the erasure of the world’s only Jewish state, takes moral duplicity to sickening new heights. In their snivelling whisperings about ‘racism’, these scumbags reveal their own.
It was at their conference in Brighton that the Green Party of England and Wales voted in favour of the ‘Zionism is Racism’ screed. The motion expressly defines the Greens as an ‘anti-Zionist party’. It says Zionism is a species of racial hatred, and will henceforth be ‘treated as any other form of racism’. Most obnoxiously of all, it commits the Greens to campaigning for the scrubbing of the Jewish nation from the face of the Earth. It calls for ‘the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine, with Jerusalem as its capital’. So no more Jewish homeland. No more tiny patch of land, a poxy 263 by 71 miles, for the Jews to call their own. All of it would disappear. Imagine accusing others of being ‘genocidal’ even as you agitate for the total dismantling of the ancestral kingdom of the Jews.
I have been meaning to post this interview with Dara Horn, who has written penetratingly on Jew-hatred and what is actually behind it. Now seems like a good time to recommend watching it. A great many people have tackled that topic, to be sure. But I’m especially impressed with her insight:
Psalm 104:30-35 JPS 1917 English
Thou sendest forth Thy spirit, they are created; and Thou renewest the face of the earth. May the glory of the LORD endure for ever; let the LORD rejoice in His works! Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke. I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have any being. Let my musing be sweet unto Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD. Let sinners cease out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah.
In addressing the many atrocities around the world, I regularly pray that the Holy Spirit come and renew the face of the earth.
” a lie that people use to gain and maintain power”
Haven’t watched it all but but she certainly nails it in the opening.
I believe the Jew-hating is demonic.
I believe the Jew-hating is demonic.
As fine an explanation as I’ve heard so far.
Kate is succinct and correct: Jew hatred IS demonic. I say that as a born again believer in Jesus. And for those who spuriously and slanderously claim that “the Jews killed Christ,” I say it is WE–all of us sinners–who are responsible for His death. Jesus Himself told us that “No man taketh [my life] from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” The rage of these Jew haters is utterly misdirected; they should direct it at the source of their problems, their personal sinfullness. And as for those who pretend to be Christians, I say, shame on you. The Father in Heaven will judge you and your fate is one I would not want to share.
More like everyone played a part in fullfillimg the covenant but this is the influence of the old gods of ‘principalities and powers of the air’ and yes qatari and emirati influences play a part
Related:
‘HAMAS’s Own Gaza Death Toll Statistics Undermine the “Israeli Genocide” Narrative’—
https://www.kyleorton.com/p/hamas-death-toll-numbers-cut-against-israeli-genocide-narrative
Continued…
“Journalist admits: Anti-Israel narrative driving protests is based on Hamas lies”—
https://nypost.com/2026/09/21/opinion/journalist-admits-anti-israel-narrative-driving-protests-is-based-on-hamas-lies/
“US generals and admirals: Israel did not commit genocide in Gaza;
“More than 75 retired US generals, admirals, and military lawyers say the facts and legal standard do not support accusations of genocide in Gaza.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434255
And then there’s Madmani…
‘Mamdani uses October 7 anniversary to attack Israel;
‘NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani claims to mourn Israelis murdered and abducted on October 7 before accusing Israel of committing “war crimes” in Gaza and condemning continued US military support.’—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434251
“Mamdani slammed for turning October 7 anniversary into attack on Israel”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/434259
Well, Barry, there you go again, introducing facts and reason into a situation where it serves no purpose.
I absolutely support Israel’s right to exist. Even if I didn’t believe that the Jews have an ongoing Covenant relationship with Yahweh, I would hope I would recognize that if nothing else, Israel is a stick in the eye of Islam’s dominance of the Middle East . Give back the Hagia Sophia , Muslims!
I was noticing across a number of News Websites today that if a person was just a casual observer of the news and mainly looked at headlines , they would probably not realize that 49 American Citizens were murdered and 12 taken hostage 3 years ago today by a group whose stated membership in their original 1988 charter is with the Muslim Brotherhood and that their goal is Sharia Law. Now you can do a search about ” Americans killed on Oct 7 ” and find articles. But the casual observer most likely wouldn’t be reminded – part of a thousand bias by omission or suppression to the ” back page” by mainstream media that is not an accident.
Americans are not supposed to recognize that the enemies of Israel are the enemies of the United States.
I’m going to repost what I posted on another site:
Americans have been so insulated for so long events that happen elsewhere are simply images on the stupid tube. Bearing no relation to to their reality. We throw off the most evil, stupid and banal opinions not caring about the action that they really mean. A significant number of Americans want to see the Holocaust reenacted. They mouth the words in an oblique way and don’t think about the full impact. Some former acquaintances have done it. When I tell them the way to handle Gaza is “keep killing”. The shock…..
My first comments, both on 9/11 and 10/7 were “Kill them all” – the Muslims. Don’t feel different now.
Can someone here provide a link to the Israeli 10/7 video doc?
Miguel cervantes:
Good to hear from you again. Don’t be such a stranger. I always like your posts.
NOTES ON the author VIDEO INTERVIEW bottom of Neo’s post), FIRST HALF: Anti-semitism. It’s all ‘The Big Lie.’
The claim that ‘Jews are destroying what you value most’ is ‘the Big Lie.’
SHOCKING: ‘there are no Jews in (school history) textbooks after 1945.’ SHOCKING.
Erasure of the Jews — ‘THIS [message] IS DELIBERATE ignorance,’
There is deep thinking anger in this author’s message: ‘Anti-semitism today is a permission structure for elimination of Jews.’
TOO TRUE. Please listen.
She offers a pained and appropriate re-think of what you think you understand.
Jew Hate slogans used today began in the 1960s and ‘70s, back then spread by Soviet Union.
There is an international eliminationist campaign to discredit Jews in every way. She brings the receipts in her book.
POWERFUL. Difficult, but enlightening.
Does the name, Alice Nderitu, ring a bell?
Probably not…
https://tinyurl.com/mv384auc
For more information, ask AI about Alice Nderitu.
Pallywood meets Tunnelvision.
https://tinyurl.com/yb3e99ha
H/T Instapundit
https://instapundit.com/827753/
What do you do with a problem like the Muslims?
The radical ones will kill you.
The moderates will do nothing to stop them.
Miguel cervantes, hello!
Ditto IrishOtter49 @ 7:49pm !
I have wondered and worried about you.
Blessings and take care!
Shirehome & Huxley,
Yes. And yes.
” the deaths of Palestinian children in the latest Gaza war”
I keep pointing out that Palestine never existed. It’s an imaginary country like Wakanda, an imaginary African country where everything works well.
Thanks all ive been working on my novel
Quick refutation of genocide charge: 70% of Gaza buildings either damaged or destroyed. 3% of Gazans killed in war.
I am reminded of the peacenik slogan in the ’70s about the neutron bomb, which destroyed buildings without killing people: the capitalist bomb.
Yes the djinn or the ghula are afoot
This entire hate-Jews movement , which regained traction due to the Oct 7 genocide, demonstrates the power of propaganda.
There have always been anti-semites, but the massive propaganda campaign post Oct 7 , has brought into the hate-Jews theology millions more people that prior to Oct 7, were not anti -Semites.
This new group of haters, for the most part, are totally ignorant of history, and worse, have no intention of learning any history.
They just believe – similar to Nazis, Marxists, – no questions asked.
These people are just plain stupid, irrespective of their level of education.
Unfortunately, these people are also very dangerous and prone to violence.
It may be 46 not 49 Americans killed on Oct 7, 2023. The US Embassy in Jerusalem said 46 a year ago. I wonder in the “49” is someone flipping the 6 and 9 and Google AI picked up on that.
Two-Year Anniversary of October 7th Attack – U.S. Embassy Jerusalem https://share.google/us2bKdqRXRiyHJZsR
@Barry Meislin –
Madmani
Is this a spoonerism or did you come up with this on purpose?
I call him Mandummy
Spell checker, I’m pretty sure…
(When in doubt, always blame…)
People should really be grateful:
Use wrong pronouns? You get clobbered.
Attack a Jew and/or insist that the Jewish State is a child-killing, satanic entity that should be obliterated from off the face of the earth?
Hey, no problem…
Hear, hear! Play it again!!
Madmani
Mandummy
Regardless of provenance, I am liberating these in the name of The People.
Shortly after the Operation Thunderball, see the Entebbe Raid, some magazines I’d read had letters to the editors condemning Israel’s aggression against a peaceful, innocent third-world nation,
I’ve run out of logical, psychological, historical reasons to explain Jew/Israel hate.
Sowell’s The Minority Middleman checks some boxes but is too mechanical and misses the HATE. Prager and Teluschkin in “Why the Jews?” seem, as far as I can tell, to lay it to envy. Not enough. Not nearly.
And when you point out that Pakistan exists by an almost identical mechanism, for the same reasons, at the same time….blank stares.
Not getting it. I live in a fairly conservative county with the usual lefty enclaves plus some upscale summer folks (we have a lake). I’m good wearing a tee shirt with a USA or some such, although I have a feeling a prosecutor in some other Michigan counties might say I was looking for a fight, I should get one with a big Star of David and wear it into the local ……denom not named….. church and probably couldn’t say I wasn’t.
Not getting it. So much energy when…..