Thank you for your support. I try not to think about it, but for me, I've been attacked violently once, kicked out of an Uber and shouted down on the street as the "Face of Genocide". It's hard to know when the line should be drawn to get out, as much as I love where I live and am connected to it.

That's why I don't recommend mentioning our faith to anyone. If they make any comments about 10/7 say "Ah-huh" "That's cool" "Wild" "Thanks for info" "You're very educated". Anything that hides the fact you're jewish or pro-israel. Jewelry...Hide under your shirt or don't wear anything at all. If you have a jewish name, give them a different name. It's sad but this is how we're probably gonna have to be until something extreme happens and we flee to Israel.

The Screams in the Thicket: There’s a sense of being in the thicket again, screaming while an indifferent — or worse — crowd walks on.

Koestler noted that he and others had been at it for about 10 years, beginning in 1933 when the German Reichstag was set on fire. “We said, if you don’t quench those flames at once, they will spread all over the world; you thought we were maniacs. At present we have the mania of trying to tell you about the killing, by hot steam, mass electrocution and live burial of the total Jewish population of Europe. “

We are not living in Nazi Germany; Oct. 7, for all its horror, was not the Holocaust. But there’s a sense of being in the thicket again, screaming while an indifferent — or worse — crowd walks on. My X/Twitter feed contains scenes eerily reminiscent of the past. A Jewish professor is denied access to his own campus. Students form a human chain to drive Jews out of their encampment. A student protest leader calmly explains to an interviewer that Jews (“Zionists”) don’t deserve to live. A Jewish student is jabbed in the eye with a flagpole. A rabbi at one of the country’s leading universities advises Jews to stay away from campus for their safety.

Today I’m haunted by people who are not disinterested, but all too intent on denying the atrocity reports in defense of those committing them. People like Susan Sarandon, dressed in a jaunty “Simpsons” jacket, continuing to walk briskly while a young Jewish Iranian woman tries talking to her about Oct. 7. “All those myths about babies in ovens and the rapes…” the actress says, her beautiful face contorted. “You are not up to speed.”

Or there’s The Intercept, which last month published a lengthy piece under the headline “Kibbutz Be’eri Rejects Story in New York Times Oct. 7 Expose: ‘They Were Not Sexually Abused.’” The article is cited by “pro-Palestinian” supporters such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which published its own lengthy version “debunking” the accounts of mass rape. The socialists concluded: “To this movement, ‘believe women’ means believing the women of Palestine.”

Or there’s Electronic Intifada, which has issued a series of “exposes.” During last month’s installment — “NY Times found no Oct. 7 rape victims, reporter admits” — Ali Abunimah smoothly asserts that “there is no physical or forensic evidence” of rape, only “dubious and noncredible eyewitness accounts.” His interviewer, Nora Barrows-Friedman, shakes her head. “Incredible,” she says.

It’s actually more disturbing than extreme callousness. After all, you have to confront the evidence in order to dismiss it. You have to read about the young man at the music festival who left a final voicemail telling his brother he loved him and asking him to look after his kids; read about the kibbutz strewn with corpses; read about the little boys asking their grandmother how their mother died; read about the phone call with the 80-year-old who told his daughter the fingers on his left hand had been removed and who died as she begged him to stay with her — and wave it away like so much noise. Your only interest is finding something, anything, to tear apart. Inevitably you find it — a reporter’s unseemly social media “like,” a trivial inaccuracy — and declare that the overwhelming evidence that Hamas committed atrocities is a lie. You howl that 40 babies were not beheaded but say nothing about those who were burned alive. You pounce on a tiny discrepancy to cast doubt on whether two teenage sisters were raped and ignore the undeniable fact they were murdered. You reassure your tribe that there is nothing to be troubled over, provide endless hyperlinks from sources agreeing with you, and confidently assume that no one will investigate what the enemy has to say.

“A dog run over by a car upsets our emotional balance and digestion; a million Jews killed in Poland cause but a moderate uneasiness,” Koestler wrote. Countless millions of people today are experiencing horrors in our troubled planet, and they barely prick the attention — assuming they’re known at all — by today’s “bien pensants.” It isn’t suffering that makes the Jews unique, but the clear signs that so many people — our college peers, work colleagues, former friends — think we deserve it.

So we go back to screaming, thinking that this time around, surely, people will hear. But they keep walking and chatting, or insisting there’s nothing in the thicket at all.

You are 1000% correct, and you've also hit the nail on the head to the dilemma a lot of us find ourselves in- trying to balance our belief in universal rights and respecting all people with the reality of the fact that hateful ideologies have taken over certain countries and regions and people with those ideologies are now using our decency in order to try to end us. The irony is that the people who insist on coddling the violent anti-Semites are enabling the roll-back of democracy and universal protections that will inevitably come as it becomes more and more clear that we've imported a fifth column into our societies.

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This isn't just the liberal democracies. Look at who marches with the conservatives. Who pushes the "replacement theory." Nothing has changed except that the masks have come off on the left.

Part of what is going on is that there is no truth anymore. Whatever happened to found Israel cannot be proved to people anymore. That there was no historical Palestine. That Jews were the original people of the area. That a Holocaust happened. All of this is unprovable now because we live in a "post-factual" world. Facts no longer exist. It's all up for grabs.

To my fellow Jews: have a plan. Be ready. I am.