This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
If Jesus is the stumbling block with which God tests the Jewish people, the Jewish people are the stumbling block with which He tests the nations. How we doing so far? (Matthew 25:31-46)
@theisabelb@michaeljknowles No, to understand the Apostolic Scriptures (ie New Testament), we should be reading it in light of the Tanakh, and the vast oral tradition within Judaism.
Yeshua (Jesus) was a Jewish born son of God aka the Messiah.
He taught in temples. He engaged in debates with Pharisees, Sadducees, and scribes (some of whom were addressed as “teachers of the law” or had rabbinic roles) in the Temple courts.
He performed miracles.
He was crucified and on the third day rose from the dead.
Some of you have so much hate in your heart, you can’t accept the above facts and some hearts can ONLY be softened with prayer.
@AOC Why are you cherry-picking quotes out of context from a man who has died to make him look bad. This is one of the most vile things a person could do. I hope you repent.