@NoaMagid Yulia Didenko Lamai (31) ๐ฏ
The Supernova trance music festival near Kibbutz Re'im.
October 7th 2023.
May her memory forever be for a blessing.
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
An Israeli soldier films the extent of the destruction and rubble. Gaza was razed to the ground, leaving no homes standing, and entire families were killed, leaving no one alive.
A video that the world must never forget.
The Jonathan Battalion of the Hasmonean Brigade completed its 7 months of fighting in Lebanon yesterday and is now returning home to Israel.
God bless these heroes. ๐๐ฎ๐ฑ
@YisraelOfficial ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฏ UNARMED MURDERED JEWISH โก๏ธ CHILDREN ON October 7th 2023. In their homeland Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ
They protested for freedom in Tehran.
Hamid was shot in the head. Vahid ran to save him - and was shot twice in the neck.
Both brothers were murdered in cold blood by the Islamic regime.
Donโt forget them.
A Brooklyn mother took her 4-year-old to a puppet show.
That sentence should end in laughter. In pizza-rat jokes. In a little boy pointing at dancing skyscrapers and Lady Liberty and the ordinary magic of New York.
Instead it ends like this.
Fifteen minutes in, the โcelebration of the city we all loveโ at the International Puppet Fringe Festival in Lower Manhattan turned. A woman walked on with a piece of paper and began reciting Israelโs โwar crimes.โ
The room answered her. Shame.
Shame.
Eight performers arranged themselves into a flotilla bound for Gaza. Keffiyehs. Chants. A child in the dark, and a mother who suddenly understood she was the only one not joining in.
โIt felt like a lynch mob,โ she said.
She is Jewish. She is from Brooklyn. She is an immigrant from the former Soviet Union โ which means antisemitism is not an abstract word to her. It is the reason her family is here at all.
โTo see it out in full effect in the daylight is awful.โ
She didnโt leave right away. She had a four-year-old. She had bags. She felt, in her own words, naked โ because the room knew who she was the moment she stayed silent.
This was not a protest in the street. This was a family festival. At The Clemente. Partially funded by the City of New York and the State of New York.
Billed as quirky, local, for everyone.
Then the puppets became a flotilla, and a Jewish mother had to decide whether to sit still or walk her child out through a crowd chanting shame at the country that is the size of New Jersey and the only Jewish state on earth.
Children do not come to puppet shows to be conscripted.
They come to believe the world still has room for wonder.
When art turns a little boy into an accidental witness to a political ritual โ when public money helps light the stage โ something sacred in this city is being spent without asking the people it will most wound.
A mother should not have to scan an audience for the exit while her child watches ships sail toward Gaza.
A Jewish child in New York should not learn, before he can read, that the room can turn.
We can argue policy until the sun goes down. We cannot pretend this is โjust theaterโ when a woman who fled one antisemitism finds another one waiting for her in daylight, with puppets, and a chant.
Shame is a word they used that afternoon.
They should look again at who they used it on.
And who was sitting in the dark, four years old, holding his motherโs hand.