[disfiguredgrace]

grabbingyou by the collar extremely roughly to tell you that:

the moment you can make an excuse for killing jews you can make any excuse for killing jews. you can accuse us of creating capitalism, creating communism, being pedophiles, being cannibals, killing children, killing the planet— you can just say anything. the moment our murder becomes tolerable is the moment in which it is viewed as natural and inevitable. i don’t care what you think zionism means, fuck you and also die. forever

[pargolettasworld]

Antisemitic attack near Istanbul synagogue on Hanukkah | The Jerusalem Post

Jews heading to a Hanukkah candle lighting in Istanbul were attacked amid protests and anti Israel slogans, according to footage from the sc

First night in Australia . . . Eighth night in Türkiye. Di goyim really like our holidays, don't they? And once again, not a single Gazan was helped.

I am So Fucking Sick of this.

[knight-of-skyloft]

On Sunday morning, the group posted a picture of a menorah splattered with blood, with a red handprint on it, alongside the time and location of the lighting.  Later on Sunday, it posted footage from the incident alongside "What is Hanukkah? It is a Jewish holiday celebrated for 2200 years in honor of the retrieval of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) from the hands of the Empire by the Jews in 200s BC. Jerusalem belongs to Muslims. This Zionist doesn't accept the Eid; we don't want to see Zionists in our country."

[feralaces]

"The Neve Shalom Synagogue has been the target of several terrorist attacks, including a massacre in 1986 that killed 22 people and truck bombings in 2003."

[federal-reserve-bonds-dog]

Yup

[tributary]

sometimes you see a story take shape in real time. not the event itself but the narrative that forms around it.

first, the facts: on december 14, 2025, a father-and-son duo attacked a menorah lighting celebration to mark the start of hanukkah in bondi beach. they explicitly targeted a jewish celebration and murdered 15 people and wounded many more. people tried to intervene by fighting off the shooters, and several were shot or lost their lives in the attempt.

you’ve probably heard of ahmed al ahmed, the shopkeeper who seized a gunman’s weapon and forced his retreat, sustaining gunshot wounds in the process. you should also hear about alex kleytman, a holocaust survivor who died saving his wife; reuven morrison, who warned of dangerously rising antisemitism in australia a year before and hurled bricks at the attackers before being shot dead; sofia and boris gurman, a couple who died trying to fend off the attackers; and chaya dadon, a 14-year-old girl who was shot multiple times while shielding younger children with her body. she is in the hospital.

then, the spin:

when the details of the attack became clear, i saw condemnations of the violence. some of them highlighted the explicitly antisemitic nature of the attack. others decided this was really an issue of gun control, or a false flag, or actually a really great thing that they wanted to see more of because the victims belonged to a group that they despised.

i saw a few themes emerge. one was apologetics, a desperate desire to downplay the significance of the attack.

and this weird forced positivity approach of “look at this person who helped other people, even though he is — gasp — muslim and they are jews.” as though muslims and jews are fundamentally at odds, that it’s surprising that human beings would come to the aid of human beings outside their group.

take none of this as a criticism of ahmed, who is objectively a hero and righteous man. he did not ask to be made the symbol of a feel-good story, to be the only thing that many people mention about the attack at all.

and i understand that it is an effort to preempt islamophobic responses to the attack, i do. it’s just that the message, over and over again, makes jews an afterthought in our own story.

it’s not his fault that his gofundme has received more donations than all of the other victims and survivors’ combined. he did risk his life to save others at considerable cost to himself.

but i’m reminded of righteous gentiles, the ones who saved jews in the holocaust. certainly they are worthy of admiration. but there were relatively few righteous gentiles all told, which you might not know considering the many, many movies about them. jews are so rarely seen as the heroes in our own stories.

i think dara horn was wrong: people don’t love dead jews. they’d really prefer not to think about them at all.

is this the story?

i think it’s easier for people to highlight gentile heroism when they don’t want to look at the deeper issues. but this was preventable. this didn’t have to happen at all.

[maimonideznuts]

Before the attack on the Chanukah celebration at Bondi, Boris and Sofia Gurman attempted to prevent what would happen. Boris disarmed the older gunman as he collected his gun and ammunition from his vehicle, but he and Sofia would both end up losing their lives in a valiant effort to avert the massacre that followed.

May their Memories be a blessing, may HaShem average their blood.

[chutzpahchesed]

Boris and Sofia Gurman named as couple who tried to disarm Bondi terrorists before they were shot dead

* * *

The couple who tried to disarm the Bondi Beach terrorists before they were shot dead are named as Boris and Sofia Gurman.

Newly uncovered dashcam footage appeared to show the pair confronting the father and son gunmen after the attackers parked their car, before Boris tussles with one of them to try and get his weapon.

The car appears to have an Islamic State flag draped across the windshield.

According to news.com.au, the Russian-Jewish couple lived in Bondi and are survived by a son in his 30s.

“We are heartbroken by the sudden and senseless loss of our beloved Boris and Sofia Gurman,” the family says in a statement to the Sydney Morning Herald.

“In recent days, we have become aware of footage showing Boris, with Sofia by his side, courageously attempting to disarm an attacker in an effort to protect others,” the statement reads.

“While nothing can lessen the pain of losing Boris and Sofia, we feel an overwhelming sense of pride in their bravery and selflessness. This encapsulates who Boris and Sofia were – people who instinctively and selflessly tried to help others,” the family says.

[hillsofspices]

if insisting that “jews in australia have nothing to do with israel” is the only way you can feel sympathy for them then don’t even bother

[uraeuseraph]

When Jews can't even peacefully walk for the hostages without getting a molotov cocktail to the face, that's a major fucking problem.

What the fuck. I'm so... I'm numb, shocked, furious, sad, all at once.

This third intifada shit has got to stop. This death cult is NOT going to free Palestine.

The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of the "Free Palestine" movement to is not to build a Palestinian future, it is to kill and terrorize Jews until (they hope) Jews are no longer a part of the picture at all.

Westerners, Leftists, if you are still standing with this movement, fucking move immediately, because you are standing in the blood splatter zone.

[prof-grace-aspen]

Remember that post I made where I asked non-Jews “has your opinion about Jews changed in the past two years? If so, you have fallen for antisemitic propaganda”? And I had that line where I said “maybe you’d stand up if they started carting away random Jews in your neighborhood. But would you feel different if I said they were Zionists?”

So now I ask:

How did you feel about the killing of Israeli Embassy workers, who were killed for the crime of… being Israeli? One of whom was Jewish?

If you felt this murder was justified, you have fully embraced modern antisemitic fascist rhetoric. You support vigilante killings of Jews You Don’t Like. You support the vigilante killings of people from Countries You Don’t Like. You think it’s ok to murder people in broad daylight because their politics are ones you don’t like.

That is what fascists do. They execute people in the streets. They convince the populace through propaganda that certain people are so evil, so horrible, that they deserve death on sight.

And the target you’re being taught to hate is Jews.

[gingerswagfreckles]

Man I think I'm gonna have to log off for a few days so I don't get into a fight with the entirety of jumblr over whether the crackdown on Columbia United is justified. It is, btw. You'd get it if you lived here. :/

[knight-of-skyloft]

When I was eight months pregnant my husband and I ran some errands on the UWS, not realizing it was the week of Columbia orientation. Some guy followed us for several blocks, spat at us, and finally got close enough to touch and muttered "fuck off colonizer" into my literal ear. We ignored him because what else can you do, and thank God he eventually left us alone. Then we walked past Columbia and saw students protesting on the sidewalk and both went "ah, that makes sense."

We weren't doing or saying anything "Zionist". We didn't even have any Hebrew on our clothes. He targeted us because my husband was wearing a kippah. The whole neighborhood has become a no-fly zone for anyone who looks visibly Jewish. Shit is bad and anyone who tells you these protests are peaceful and aren't antisemitic are wrong or lying.

[mazaloza]

[mockiatoh]

No but you’re right.

It’s very frustrating that the debate has centered around freedom of speech, as if what happened at Columbia was peaceful protests. And not, yknow, denying Jewish students their civil rights, harassment, physical assault, and a host of misdemeanors. You can’t simply claim your actions are for The Cause and expect consequences not to exist. It’s giving Crusade.

Still, it fits the pattern, doesn’t it? The real, actual harm done to Jews—including Good Jews who don’t care about Israel!—is forgotten, while principles of democracy are discussed with lofty platitudes.

And the response of so many is to anxiously worry that this is going to make people who hate Jews start to hate Jews. They already do! The horse has already bolted! The damn barn is on fire! Stop trying to paint the burning barn a different color thinking it will placate the horse!

We are not disposable because we are Jewish. We will not roll over like a dog and quietly die because it is more politically convenient for you.

If this is a political win for trump—and make no mistake, it is—it is because the left as a large handed him the easiest win imaginable. Having gone from ‘a table of ten with one Nazi is a table of ten Nazis’ to ‘anything is justified if it keeps people talking about Palestine’ was a choice.

[unfuckablebogtroll]

I’m actually so glad that I stopped watching 911 and have divorced from canon because seeing you all talk about Buck’s apparently canonical bad credit is like “canon… to you. Not me tho. 750 🤗”

[gaytommykinard]

also sorry like I'm happy for buddies enjoying their messy buck/eddie conflict or w/e but personally i loved the healthy relationship between buck and tommy like open communication and honest feelings two people treating each other as the equals they are woweee that's the good shit

[penelopegarciasbabygirl]

The Buck & Eddie friendship is giving off the same vibes that I have had with coworkers I previously worked with.

See how I say coworkers? It's because that "friendship" vanished shortly after we were no longer comiserating about work related bullshit.

If Eddie never comes back, that "friendship" will last as long as Buck bends over backwards to keep it, and it will stay just as one sided as it has been since day one. Aka Buck giving more and more while Eddie takes and takes and gives little in return.

But yeah, this is supposed to be the most beautiful slowburn 🙄

[feralaces]

^ Beyond the Buck of it all, I think this is what's been really bugging me about Eddie keeping his move a secret from the rest of the 118. (Also I actually fully believe the hc if Buck hadn't seen Eddie looking at houses, he'd once again be finding out about Eddie leaving at the same time as everyone else, which would also be the same time as close to the end as Eddie could make it. I'd assume he'd want Buck's help packing though, so probably not day of.)

Because the show kind of threw it out like Eddie was worried about not losing his job before he was ready to move, but when working and resigning from a full-time CA government job post-probationary period it means two weeks is a minimum (and at the end of the day, a courtesy.) Unless you have an additional contract that specifies a notice period, and a firefighter at his level would not, three weeks - esp with an understanding boss - would be fine. (Not to mention, his resignation would need to be put in writing and he would put his last effective date in the letter, and no one is going to care if he does two or three weeks. Bobby wouldn't get in trouble for not telling HR one of his firefighter's is thinking of resigning even if he told them way before his last date; it's not HR's business until they have the resignation letter in hand.)

So he's using the job as an excuse not to tell his friends he's moving, who let's be real were going to be supportive of him moving closer to his son (though I have thoughts about that), because 1) he never recognizes how his actions affect anyone around him except (sometimes) Chris, so he makes decisions without discussions; and 2) he puts more emphasis on the work part of "work friends" than the friends.

Now at the end of the day him planning to leave with barely more than a 'see ya' to his best friend with known abandonment issues is my biggest problem with Eddie "how dare you make this situation that directly affects you about you" Diaz, but it also says something about his general feeling towards the rest of the group - including Bobby, who has helped him a lot over the years - that he won't even have a head's up conversation with them either.

[chutzpahchesed]

(Tumblr wouldn’t let me post these with the images of Eviatar and Guy from today, it keeps flagging them as explicit.)

in this same sick video is the clip of Omer Shem Tov being told at gunpoint to kiss his captors on the forehead (though they edited out the bit where they direct him what to do). “look how nice they are! how kind! the hostages love them! they’re treated well!” and Hamas knows, they know it works. they know that they’ve gotten away with this. they know that their global fan club believes it. they know that the fact that they sent back two brutally murdered babies this week makes no difference to the world.

there is currently no word of when Eviatar and Guy might be released. they did this and then dragged them back into captivity. in front of the Red Cross, the UN, every international organization, in front of their families who witness it, in front of all of us.

the silence over the past three days is suffocating.

[jewishdog]

The completely normal reaction from tumblr ysers about the brutal murder of a 4 years old and a 10 months old baby that were kidnapped from their homes, murdered with bare hands and then had their bodies mutilated. Being presented to a cheering crowd with "arrested on October 7th" on their coffins while giving a random body instead of their mom which was also brutally murdered in captivity

[jewishdog]

[mossadspydolphin]

What you need to remember, to help you get into these peoples' frame of mind, is: Jews aren't people.

"How could someone even think that about another human--"

They can't, but they can think it about Jews, because Jews aren't people.

"I wouldn't treat an animal that way--"

No, but Jews aren't animals, either. We occupy some space way below that, beyond the reach of human caring, but not so far out of sight that we aren't a convenient target.

And I hope that everyone who wrote those screenshotted posts has nonstop diarrhea forever.

[magnetothemagnificent]

Why when talking about these kids' memory the only and solely remarkable thing yall can even find about their existences to mention is that they consumed western cop and military propaganda? Can yall only view compassion for human beings through the lenses of the imperial cartoons they liked?

You guys aren't beating the fandomite allegations

You are a miserable human being and I hope you chew on glass

[gingerswagfreckles]

This is about a murdered 4 year old child liking Batman by the way.

[frustratedasatruar]

I want this guy to think, very hard, about how many total interests a 4 year old might discernibly have.

"Can yall only view compassion for human beings through the lenses of the imperial cartoons they liked?"

"How come you only talk about what cartoon this murdered four year old liked? Seems kind of childish to focus only on that sort of thing, imo"

I'm sorry that four year old who was murdered for being a Jew wasn't spending their time volunteering at soup kitchens, Anon, or whatever-the-fuck you think it would be acceptable to mention about them. Fuck you.

[pusheenthenerdcat]

what remarkable thing to mention could he possibly have had time to do in 4 YEARS OF LIFE

Babies, in case you didn't know anon, take about half that time to even learn how to walk and talk

What the fuck do you expect

[chutzpahchesed]

he was four years old and believed in heroes who save people. he wanted to save people too.

anon, in your bitter cruelty and inhumanity, I have to wonder…can anyone save you?

[girlactionfigure]

[mossadspypigeon]

💔💙

[mossadspypigeon]

[chutzpahchesed]

I want everyone to remember two central points from this today. first, please look at that number. we still have 245,000 survivors left. this is their living memory, this is their firsthand experience. all of them are elderly now, and all were children when this happened to them. we’ve lost a number of survivors in the past two months alone, the aching but inevitable consequence of time. there will come a day, not too far away, where we have none of them living in the present with us. we are the last generations who will get the chance to listen to them, bear witness, and support them while they are here. the children of the future will not have that blessing - and with that loss, comes the danger of further obfuscation, further denial, as their stories fade into history. this is why we must keep the truth alive. we have the responsibility to carry that flame.

the second thing is the stark reality and tragedy of the fact that these souls survived unimaginable horror in the beginning of their young lives only to be met with this moment in their final years. the world failed the survivors. it did not keep its promise. they have been murdered in their own homes, tortured, held captive. the ones who did not go through that directly are persisting in the same world as the rest of us - watching the celebratory glee at Jewish death and suffering, seeing swastikas brandished on the streets, the darkening of the world shadowed by the same hatred that carried them on train tracks to the death camps. they should not have ever experienced this again. they should not be questioning their hope for the world in their elder years.

there are other ways survivors have been failed, neglected, and forgotten (FAR too many live in poverty globally and never received the help they needed and deserved), but this current moment should be considered as a blight on humanity. they have been let down when they should be most cherished.

as it always has, it will fall to us to honor and remember them. I saw someone today say that International Holocaust Remembrance Day isn’t supposed to be for us, we already know, we already remember, we don’t need a designated day to discuss the Holocaust and its aftermath as a part of us. this day is supposed to be for everyone else, because they are the ones who need to learn and to help us carry the lesson. yet the truth is, it’s always going to be us recognizing it. since that is so, we have a duty to raise our voices, and to amplify the voices of survivors.

Shlomo has been a hostage for fifteen months. in his story, in Moshe’s (murdered on 10/7), in Ludmila’s (who was stabbed to death exactly one month ago, on December 27), in every name not mentioned here, is the abandonment of “never again,” and the ugly truth of a hatred that persists through the currents of time. this should not be accepted with complacency. we owe it to them, to the six million, to the 1200+ murdered on 10/7, to Vivian Silver, to the beautiful six, to Alex Dancyg and Chaim Peri, to every hostage living and dead, and to ourselves, to fight it with strength, pride, and compassion. we owe it to the countless victims of pogroms and murderous hatred through centuries of our history, and we owe it to the children yet to be, with the hope that they will experience less of it, and not more.

may Shlomo come home soon. may the living survivors know we love them, and may those who are gone continue to be heard.

Viktor Frankl wrote: what is to give light must endure burning. this is our trial by fire. don’t let the light go out.

[chutzpahchesed]

I’ve thought about Naama Levy every day for 477 days. not that that isn’t true of many others individually and of the hostages collectively, but the footage of Naama being taken…we all saw it. we’ve all seen it since, seen it reinterpreted for protests, seen the Jewish outcry to women’s rights organizations met with silence, seen the footage of her saying she has friends in Palestine, seen her mother, Ayelet, who has been so fierce in her fight for her daughter but has understandably faded further and further into grief (the last time I saw her, she was with the Goldberg-Polins at a vigil for the hostages - Rachel and Jon could speak, Ayelet could not bring herself to, and it worried me for her. Hersh was gone, and it seemed almost too overwhelming and frightening to pray for Naama out loud).

remember when Naama’s mother came to New York City and they screamed “shame” at her and called her a killer on the streets? I think about that a lot too.

the footage of Naama’s abduction changed my life, selfishly and in an infinitesimal way in comparison to her and to real suffering, but still. my life of illness and tedium is very small and quiet and sequestered, and it was seeing people laughing and mocking Naama specifically that was the very first image of 10/7 on my dash that day. I didn’t know what was going on, what had happened, but she was the first victim I saw before I realized the extent of the massacre, and she was also the first victim I saw being denigrated as the floodgates of the hatred opened. losing mutuals and friends when my sphere of social interaction is so tiny (it’s nonexistent now lol), shutting my blog down, started at that moment, even though I didn’t realize it at the time. and I’d do it again, but I wish I had not had to. I wish people had reacted to that image of this sweet 19 year old girl, this girl who worked with youth groups promoting peace and equality and a better future for all, and been horrified and sympathetic towards her. I wish they’d taken up her mission of helping and kindness. I wish they’d worried about her, just a little, instead of denying or celebrating what happened to her.

but we remembered her and cared about her and her name has been kept alive, and now we are finally near the miracle of her return. may she and the other girls be embraced, healed, and comforted. may “hands for peace” be a mission statement for far more people going forward.

thank G-d the last moments we see of her will not be from the nightmare of that day.

Ayelet wrote this in December:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ayelet-levy-a-mothers-plea-dont-forget-the-hostages

More than 400 days and nights have passed since my then 19-year-old daughter Naama was taken hostage to Gaza. Naama, a fun-loving teenager, loved by all, embodies the values of kindness, tolerance and compassion. From volunteering at a kindergarten for the children of asylum seekers to working to build bridges between Israeli and Palestinian children through the “Hands of Peace” organization, Naama is an idealist who believes in building a better world, not through her words but through her actions.

Over a year has passed since that horrific Saturday, when the world watched Hamas videos showing armed terrorists brutally dragging a beaten and bloody Naama with six of her friends into the trunk of a jeep that took them into Gaza, after forcing them to witness the murder of their friends. A year, and it feels like the world has moved on, and I am fighting daily to keep Naama’s name alive.

The haunting images of that day still torment me with a helplessness that I had previously only felt in nightmares. We know she was wounded, and today she and the 97 other hostages remain in grave danger. Released hostages have confirmed our worst fears about the violence and constant fear.

Last November brought a glimmer of hope when 105 hostages, mostly women and children, were released and reunited with their families as part of the first and only hostage release deal. But Naama wasn’t among them. Since then, despite numerous opportunities for additional deals, each failed negotiation has been another missed chance, another day of separation, another night of uncertainty.

I don’t know where Naama is, under what conditions she’s being held, what she’s going through, or her medical and physiological state. I must learn to cope with this uncertainty. For over 400 days, men, women, the elderly, and two young children have endured abuse, at times sexual, starvation, and darkness in underground tunnels. Now, with winter’s harsh cold setting in, their chances of survival under these inhumane conditions grow even more desperate.

As a doctor, it is chilling to me that the voice of the global medical community is barely heard. The October 7 massacre, the hostages’ health conditions, and the lack of medical access violate every international standard and law. I’ve met with both the Red Cross President and WHO Chairman on several occasions and was shocked to find that the hostages’ dire situation did not seem to be among their priorities. All they offered was a hug and a little empathy. While international organizations remain silent, we cannot afford to wait. Time is running out.

International Human Rights Day was earlier this week, marking the end of the 16 days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence. I am imploring the people of Canada, who have always stood for justice and human dignity: your voice matters now more than ever. Do not let these hostages fade from your consciousness. Do not let their suffering become yesterday’s news. Your support and advocacy could mean the difference between life and death for my daughter and the other hostages.

I constantly imagine the moment of Naama’s return and dream of our life together after this nightmare ends. These visions feel so real, so tangible. When I walk with Naama’s younger sister through our neighborhood, I can’t help but picture their reunion. At every step, every street corner, I imagine us together after she returns from that cursed place. Until then, I talk to Naama in my thoughts, telling her to stay strong, reminding her that she’s a true survivor, and that beyond all this hardship and suffering lie the good days ahead — when she’ll finally be free.

may they all soon be free.