Amplifying Heroism
Ahmed Al Ahmad reportedly owns and runs a fruit shop.
When shooters opened fire on a Chanukkah event (reports right now say 12 were killed, 29 were hospitalized), Ahmed, a 43yo unarmed father of two, disarmed one of the shooters.
It is reported that he was shot in the attack and is himself hospitalized.
I hope you'll join me in hoping for his quick and total recovery.
This is what heroism looks like.
This is what we should valorize, celebrate, and commemorate.
I fear that much of Australian society, in which Judenhass is increasingly normalized, will instead valorize the shooters.
"He's a hero. One hundred percent a hero. Once we saw on social media, he's one hundred percent a hero," the man's cousin, Mustafa al-Ahmad,
I hope that Ahmed Al Ahmad is not targeted for having stood up to hatred in the most visceral way possible.
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