The challenge of fighting anti-Semitism felt simpler on October 8, 2023. The worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust had just taken place. Young and old, man and woman, soldier and noncombatant—all had been attacked, many raped, some tortured, many killed, and from the living and dead in the aftermath, 251 were kidnapped into Gaza. The world was horrified.
Twenty months on, the horror has largely evanesced outside the Jewish and staunchly pro-Israel community, and a sullen, angry, and viral anti-Semitism has taken its place. Jews the world over who believed that education, outreach, and compassion would dissipate the stench of Jew-hatred were proved wrong in the most horrible of ways.
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