How should Jews remember October 7th? Germans know the answer

"Representatives of Jewish interests are making things too easy for themselves...”

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Dear Reader,

On Monday, October 7th, Josef Schuster, the head of the Central Council of Jews, appealed for the day to be reserved for memorials to the 1,400 Israelis who were murdered or kidnapped on the same day a year previously.

“Anyone who is not able to feel at least a little empathy for Jews, for the people of Israel, on a day like today, will never do so and has a huge problem,” Schuster said.

For the past year, week for week, protesters have taken to the streets of German cities to condemn Israel’s response to that attack.

Allegedly, the protests are about universal human rights. Placards on view typically cite a case awaiting judgement at the International Court of Justice as proof that Israel is carrying out a genocide.

You might expect then, that on the anniversary of the day that Palestinian terrorists raped, murdered and torched their way through southern Israel, these same advocates of universal justice would see it as appropriate to dem…