I am disgusted by, and afraid of those colleagues and friends who refer to murder, rape, and kidnapping of scores of Jewish and non Jewish civilians as "resistance." My grandparents were in the resistance; resistance is something different entirely. (1/2)

What happened on Saturday 7 October was a pogrom. The blindness of those unwilling to give the murdered victims a shred of empathy is chilling to the bone. I am disgusted by their antisemitism -- and I am afraid. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/11/o...

I also find it hard to comprehend the cognitive dissonance of some on the self-proclaimed "left" on display in the last few days. It's not just a lack of a moral compass, but fundamentally also a lack of understanding of what emancipatory politics must entail. You can only despair sometimes...