No amount of despicable and horrific photographic and video evidence will ever sway the haters’ minds. Dara Horn was prescient in declaring, “People love dead Jews.” Only once were dead do we hear the empty platitudes of “Never Again.”
So moving on so many accounts Eve. The depraved world of Hamas will be exposed just as the Holocaust was. Be confident about that. The progressive left will ultimately hang their head in shame and maxima culpa will be uttered. Until the next time. But as I always sign off….” We gentiles have your back. We will never give up. Never again Eve. Never again.”
I agree with you that there is no rhyme or reason declaring today as the goyish “Holocaust Remembrance Day”… we have always had Yom HaShoah and that is our day… the hypocrisy behind the West is absolutely deafening and disgusting, amplified by a pathetic media that has made itself no longer relevant. As a second generation survivor and the son of an Altalena survivor who fought in 1948 in the Irgun, I will attend whatever tiny program my synagogue has, in order to speak up about our hostages and to give a middle finger to the virtue signaling world (not against my synagogue, I love them).. Am Israel Chai… Fuck off, UN, ICRC, legacy media and useful idiots all over the world..
Oh, Eve. I swear I’m so much stronger than these, my, weakest moments following this & your penultimate howl. They’ve both destroyed me.
These women, for me, babies: Naama, Liri, Daniella, Karina & Esther my own 18 yo baby •• all 5 are indeed Israeli queens.
Of course and thank Gd my Esther does not know the 11.5 thousand hours of TERROR and abuse the others do but I’m rendered feral, savage, enraged atm.
Again, it’s the 478th Oct 7th and for Goyische Shoah Day I have a giant ask:
This fucked up “deal” is incessant agony and needs a renefuckingotiation… Trump, the president (honestly, it’s not easy for me but I am so all in for the help) can demand, bully, cajole, threaten so many, then fucking focus on Hamas. Get them out NOW. All of them. Demand answers NOW: are the Bibas’ alive? Give us every BODY NOW. NOW. Fucking deal? The Farce of The Deal? End the theatrical Hamas bulllshit. For a cease fire give us everyone
Well done as always Eve. Israeli women are the bravest on earth. After fifteen months of crying I went to sleep last night chanting “Emily!” Like the soccer fans in support of Emily Damari. These women are not broken, Israel will never be broken. Now we have to work on our own people. I am concerned as I see my American friends give into anti Trump hysteria and say they will turn their energy to progressive causes here. Millions of liberals performed meltdowns in terror of what might happen after a peaceful and democratic election. They didn’t care at all about October 7 or our hostages. We need to keep standing up for ourselves else we will end up like that woman in Ireland. I know you will continue to lead the way.
No one, it seems, is so blind to the dangers of Trump than right wing pro-Israeli Jews. If you method of "working" on your own people is to totally deny the fascistic fantasies that underlie the MAGA movement and deligimitze all the very real concerns about Trump's love of dictatorships and his many Jew hating followers, I think you will get nowhere. The rest of us are not blind to it. Reality is not so black and white that just because Trump will back the right-wing government in Israel right now, he is actually a friend to the Jews, or that he will protect American Jews when his own violent and delusional followers finally come for us which I absolutely know that they will. It's a matter of time. So get ready.
It is Holocaust Memorial Day and the most fortunate thing for Jews is that Donald J Trump is the President of the United States and has built the most pro Jewish and pro Israel administration in American history. I would strongly advise you to stop consuming the legacy media that is keeping you in a state of denial.
Eve, after this comment, I plan to cancel my subscription to your substack. While I appreciate a lot of what you do here, I also find you to be infuriatingly blind to the danger of Trump and it is deeply offensive to me as a Jewish woman. You do not speak for all Jewish women no matter how loudly you use your bullhorn here. I will speak for the clear seeing Jewish Americans who know that Trump is one of the most dangerous men in the world, if not the most dangerous, and that yes, it will hurt Jews in the end as right wing dictatorships unmoored from the rule of law and catering to delusions and violence always do. Your insinuation that am brainwashed by legacy media is simply insulting. I have been alive and awake all these years and I am watching the far-right take over of my country with open eyes. Trump is an evil minded foul criminal who lies relentlessly and cares for nothing but his own power. You want to make a deal with devil because you think it will help Israel in the short term, okay. But I would strongly advise you to check your own knowledge of history and remember what the devil means, what he ALWAYS means, for Jews in the end.
You are behaving exactly as the leftists want you to behave and they do not care for you at all. Go on and cancel me as all of them have. It is not we who have to catch up, it is you.
Yes, liberal Jews are our enemies from within. This is cognitive dissonance that hurts the most because their support of the Democratic party and their money influenced Israeli politics on October 7!
I wait for your dispatches, Eve. They are the most searing pieces out there. Was especially keen for you to address the Nazi takeover of the Dublin Holocaust memorial. I wish I’d been there. That’s worth getting arrested for. Anyway, thank you, again and again.
Ireland: I lived there for many years. My children were born there too. I get the knee jerk response to colonialism. And I get the antisemitism, suppressed for a while, even allowing a couple of figurehead Jewish Lord Mayors of Dublin. But, honestly, I was asked (in the 80s) about my horns. Then I set it down to ignorance. Now, I will never go back.
I always sensed that IHRD has never been about, or for, us. But thanks to your article today I looked into it.
As reported yesterday by Robert Jan van Pelt:
“In the early 1990s, the Polish government led by President Lech Walesa decided to make the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the liberating Red Army at the gates of Auschwitz into a major international commemoration in 1995.
Seventeen heads of state including German Federal President Roman Herzog, attended the occasion on Jan. 27, 1995… In the 1995 commemoration, Jews were largely invisible—in fact, Walesa forgot to mention the Jews in his speech.
…A few of my now-deceased Auschwitz survivor friends told me that the entire Jan. 27 date should be cancelled as it has no or little meaning for Jews, and it certainly had no meaning for them as Auschwitz survivors, because they had been taken away from Auschwitz in a death march before the arrival of the Red Army. …Jan. 27 as a day of commemoration emerged from initiatives taken by non-Jews at the highest political level, without much consultation with Jews.”
Walesa supposedly “forgot” to mention Jews. By 2017, for the newly elected Trump White House the omission was deliberate. Trump’s spokesperson explained that the official White House statement on IHRD didn’t mention Jews or anti-Semitism because “despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all of those who suffered.”
You beat me to it Ruth. The word for gift in hebrew is matana. However, the proper translation is a gift freely given. In 2005, the UN declared Holocaust Memorial Day but it was not freely given to the Jewish People. The first caveat was the date. Of course the UN consulted with the usual so called stakeholders but the date of the " liberation" of Auschwitz was always going to be chosen to please the Russians. The second caveat was that it could be broadened to recognise contemporary conflicts as they emerged which,of course, the UN would define. The third caveat was that the day would not be exclusively to commemorate the worst expression of antisemitism in history but to condemn forms of racism. The fourth caveat was that UN members could opt out of the commemoration. Thus, what we thought we were getting was not freely given and open to exploitation.
Jews have been commemorating all pogroms against them in history including the holocaust on the fast of Av, the Yizkor Service on Yom Kippur and the Pilgrim Festivals Yom Hashoah established by law in Israel in 1959 and in remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. If there had to be an international day, may I suggest it should have been January 20th. That was the day in 1942 of the infamous Wannsee Conference in Berlin. It was attended by Politicians, Civil Servants, members of the judiciary, the state police and the SS. The clear message of International HMD should have been directly aimed at the state apparatus of UN members and January 20th was far more appropriate than the entry of the Soviet Army to a camp where the majority of survivors had been forced on a death march to other camps in Germany.
83 years ago today onTuesday 27th January 1942 and 7 days after the Wannsee Conference, the wonderful singer, actor, humanitarian and Judeophile, Paul Robeson by sheer coincidence went into a studio in New York to record the famous Kaddish and Plea to G-d written in the late 18th century by the Chassidic Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. It was to be part of a shellac album of records, Songs Of Free Men, but was not included and that particular track had to wait until 1997 to be released on a CD. I have included the link below. The rendition is so powerful that it is as if he had had a premonition of what was to come after the decisions made 7 days earlier in Berlin.
As Jews, we really have to seriously consider our future participation in HMD, which I believe at worst is only some form of insincere guilt trip by nations who either actively participated or stood apathetically and idly by in the greatest and most unique crime against humanity in history. Jews call it the Shoah and the UN call it the Holocaust, a definition that has now been basterdised to slander the Jewish people. The scenes in the Republic of Ireland put it well ahead in the line of those who wish the Jewish homeland ill and interestingly that country is where the word boycott originated.
As Ben-Gurion said, “OOM, SCHMOOM” about that despicable organization. The only reason we want it in NYC is to spy on them and support hookers and liquor when the Muslim representatives are here.
I just watched the video. Hamas and the Palestinians have no interest in peace. They just want to murder the Jews and ethnically cleanse Israel as the Islamists have done throughout the Middle East. Get this depraved hostage deal done and the only way for Israel to have any peace is to continue to prepare for war. There are no innocent civilians. They are all enemy combatants. They tell you they want to murder the Jews. They have never stopped doing this nor have they ever said Israel and the Jews have a right to exist.
So agree with you on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the UN. It is abhorrent. Yom HaShoah is on the 27th of Nisan. The day the uprising in the Warzaw Ghetto started.
Thank you, Eve, as always. Such clarity. I continue to feel rage when I read some of the mainstream media reports (New York Times primarily) where they can't bring themselves to actually name the American hostages, or when they feature a picture of Gaza rubble in a story about the most recent hostage release. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind, but then I read your posts and realize that it's not all in my head.
No amount of despicable and horrific photographic and video evidence will ever sway the haters’ minds. Dara Horn was prescient in declaring, “People love dead Jews.” Only once were dead do we hear the empty platitudes of “Never Again.”
Thank you, Eve, for being a brave Jewish warrior.
So moving on so many accounts Eve. The depraved world of Hamas will be exposed just as the Holocaust was. Be confident about that. The progressive left will ultimately hang their head in shame and maxima culpa will be uttered. Until the next time. But as I always sign off….” We gentiles have your back. We will never give up. Never again Eve. Never again.”
I agree with you that there is no rhyme or reason declaring today as the goyish “Holocaust Remembrance Day”… we have always had Yom HaShoah and that is our day… the hypocrisy behind the West is absolutely deafening and disgusting, amplified by a pathetic media that has made itself no longer relevant. As a second generation survivor and the son of an Altalena survivor who fought in 1948 in the Irgun, I will attend whatever tiny program my synagogue has, in order to speak up about our hostages and to give a middle finger to the virtue signaling world (not against my synagogue, I love them).. Am Israel Chai… Fuck off, UN, ICRC, legacy media and useful idiots all over the world..
Outstanding. Thank you Eve.
Glory to the Mothers
When I look into the Sabbath Lights,
I’ll tell you what I see,
I see the warmth of Mothers’ eyes,
Gazing through eternity.
For some things are eternal,
Like the war against the dark,
And some things never break,
Like the love in a mother’s heart.
When I smell the sabbath meal,
The ancient smell of home,
I know my mother’s with me,
And that I’ll never be alone.
My mother is a badass,
She doesn’t take no shit,
But she is also kindness,
Holding both within her grip.
When I look into the Sabbath Lights,
I see my grandma too,
I see her love within the flame,
Like her eyes of flaming blue.
My mother and her mother,
And her mother’s mother too,
Somehow found the strength,
To carry all the Jews.
For since the Days of Egypt,
Of exile and pogrom,
The world has tried to crush the Jews
Like a bug beneath a thumb.
And when our backs were broken,
And we thought of giving up,
Our mothers’ kept the faith,
And filled our homes with love.
Some mothers make roast chicken,
Some make Tadiq and Kebab,
Some mothers have ten children,
And some mothers may have none.
Some mothers work all day,
Some mothers make the home,
But every mother is great,
And deserves a cherished throne.
Happy Mother’s Day,
To my mother and to yours,
There’s nothing that a mother’s strength,
Could not help you endure.
When I look into the Sabbath Lights,
I see the generations,
Of all the Jewish Mothers,
Who saved our sacred nation.
Glory to the mothers,
Glory to the women,
Glory to the loving heart,
Of the world’s oldest religion.
This is so lovely. Thank you.
Oh, Eve. I swear I’m so much stronger than these, my, weakest moments following this & your penultimate howl. They’ve both destroyed me.
These women, for me, babies: Naama, Liri, Daniella, Karina & Esther my own 18 yo baby •• all 5 are indeed Israeli queens.
Of course and thank Gd my Esther does not know the 11.5 thousand hours of TERROR and abuse the others do but I’m rendered feral, savage, enraged atm.
Again, it’s the 478th Oct 7th and for Goyische Shoah Day I have a giant ask:
This fucked up “deal” is incessant agony and needs a renefuckingotiation… Trump, the president (honestly, it’s not easy for me but I am so all in for the help) can demand, bully, cajole, threaten so many, then fucking focus on Hamas. Get them out NOW. All of them. Demand answers NOW: are the Bibas’ alive? Give us every BODY NOW. NOW. Fucking deal? The Farce of The Deal? End the theatrical Hamas bulllshit. For a cease fire give us everyone
Well done as always Eve. Israeli women are the bravest on earth. After fifteen months of crying I went to sleep last night chanting “Emily!” Like the soccer fans in support of Emily Damari. These women are not broken, Israel will never be broken. Now we have to work on our own people. I am concerned as I see my American friends give into anti Trump hysteria and say they will turn their energy to progressive causes here. Millions of liberals performed meltdowns in terror of what might happen after a peaceful and democratic election. They didn’t care at all about October 7 or our hostages. We need to keep standing up for ourselves else we will end up like that woman in Ireland. I know you will continue to lead the way.
No one, it seems, is so blind to the dangers of Trump than right wing pro-Israeli Jews. If you method of "working" on your own people is to totally deny the fascistic fantasies that underlie the MAGA movement and deligimitze all the very real concerns about Trump's love of dictatorships and his many Jew hating followers, I think you will get nowhere. The rest of us are not blind to it. Reality is not so black and white that just because Trump will back the right-wing government in Israel right now, he is actually a friend to the Jews, or that he will protect American Jews when his own violent and delusional followers finally come for us which I absolutely know that they will. It's a matter of time. So get ready.
It is Holocaust Memorial Day and the most fortunate thing for Jews is that Donald J Trump is the President of the United States and has built the most pro Jewish and pro Israel administration in American history. I would strongly advise you to stop consuming the legacy media that is keeping you in a state of denial.
Eve, after this comment, I plan to cancel my subscription to your substack. While I appreciate a lot of what you do here, I also find you to be infuriatingly blind to the danger of Trump and it is deeply offensive to me as a Jewish woman. You do not speak for all Jewish women no matter how loudly you use your bullhorn here. I will speak for the clear seeing Jewish Americans who know that Trump is one of the most dangerous men in the world, if not the most dangerous, and that yes, it will hurt Jews in the end as right wing dictatorships unmoored from the rule of law and catering to delusions and violence always do. Your insinuation that am brainwashed by legacy media is simply insulting. I have been alive and awake all these years and I am watching the far-right take over of my country with open eyes. Trump is an evil minded foul criminal who lies relentlessly and cares for nothing but his own power. You want to make a deal with devil because you think it will help Israel in the short term, okay. But I would strongly advise you to check your own knowledge of history and remember what the devil means, what he ALWAYS means, for Jews in the end.
You are behaving exactly as the leftists want you to behave and they do not care for you at all. Go on and cancel me as all of them have. It is not we who have to catch up, it is you.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DFOc9MyuCpP/?igsh=MWlzY3A5a3Z0MnhzdQ==
Yes, liberal Jews are our enemies from within. This is cognitive dissonance that hurts the most because their support of the Democratic party and their money influenced Israeli politics on October 7!
Absolutely true and continues to do so
I wait for your dispatches, Eve. They are the most searing pieces out there. Was especially keen for you to address the Nazi takeover of the Dublin Holocaust memorial. I wish I’d been there. That’s worth getting arrested for. Anyway, thank you, again and again.
Ireland: I lived there for many years. My children were born there too. I get the knee jerk response to colonialism. And I get the antisemitism, suppressed for a while, even allowing a couple of figurehead Jewish Lord Mayors of Dublin. But, honestly, I was asked (in the 80s) about my horns. Then I set it down to ignorance. Now, I will never go back.
I always sensed that IHRD has never been about, or for, us. But thanks to your article today I looked into it.
As reported yesterday by Robert Jan van Pelt:
“In the early 1990s, the Polish government led by President Lech Walesa decided to make the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the liberating Red Army at the gates of Auschwitz into a major international commemoration in 1995.
Seventeen heads of state including German Federal President Roman Herzog, attended the occasion on Jan. 27, 1995… In the 1995 commemoration, Jews were largely invisible—in fact, Walesa forgot to mention the Jews in his speech.
…A few of my now-deceased Auschwitz survivor friends told me that the entire Jan. 27 date should be cancelled as it has no or little meaning for Jews, and it certainly had no meaning for them as Auschwitz survivors, because they had been taken away from Auschwitz in a death march before the arrival of the Red Army. …Jan. 27 as a day of commemoration emerged from initiatives taken by non-Jews at the highest political level, without much consultation with Jews.”
Walesa supposedly “forgot” to mention Jews. By 2017, for the newly elected Trump White House the omission was deliberate. Trump’s spokesperson explained that the official White House statement on IHRD didn’t mention Jews or anti-Semitism because “despite what the media reports, we are an incredibly inclusive group and we took into account all of those who suffered.”
A pox on all their houses
(link to Van Pelt article: https://theconversation.com/how-jan-27-came-to-be-international-day-of-commemoration-in-memory-of-the-victims-of-the-holocaust-248104)
You beat me to it Ruth. The word for gift in hebrew is matana. However, the proper translation is a gift freely given. In 2005, the UN declared Holocaust Memorial Day but it was not freely given to the Jewish People. The first caveat was the date. Of course the UN consulted with the usual so called stakeholders but the date of the " liberation" of Auschwitz was always going to be chosen to please the Russians. The second caveat was that it could be broadened to recognise contemporary conflicts as they emerged which,of course, the UN would define. The third caveat was that the day would not be exclusively to commemorate the worst expression of antisemitism in history but to condemn forms of racism. The fourth caveat was that UN members could opt out of the commemoration. Thus, what we thought we were getting was not freely given and open to exploitation.
Jews have been commemorating all pogroms against them in history including the holocaust on the fast of Av, the Yizkor Service on Yom Kippur and the Pilgrim Festivals Yom Hashoah established by law in Israel in 1959 and in remembrance of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. If there had to be an international day, may I suggest it should have been January 20th. That was the day in 1942 of the infamous Wannsee Conference in Berlin. It was attended by Politicians, Civil Servants, members of the judiciary, the state police and the SS. The clear message of International HMD should have been directly aimed at the state apparatus of UN members and January 20th was far more appropriate than the entry of the Soviet Army to a camp where the majority of survivors had been forced on a death march to other camps in Germany.
83 years ago today onTuesday 27th January 1942 and 7 days after the Wannsee Conference, the wonderful singer, actor, humanitarian and Judeophile, Paul Robeson by sheer coincidence went into a studio in New York to record the famous Kaddish and Plea to G-d written in the late 18th century by the Chassidic Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev. It was to be part of a shellac album of records, Songs Of Free Men, but was not included and that particular track had to wait until 1997 to be released on a CD. I have included the link below. The rendition is so powerful that it is as if he had had a premonition of what was to come after the decisions made 7 days earlier in Berlin.
As Jews, we really have to seriously consider our future participation in HMD, which I believe at worst is only some form of insincere guilt trip by nations who either actively participated or stood apathetically and idly by in the greatest and most unique crime against humanity in history. Jews call it the Shoah and the UN call it the Holocaust, a definition that has now been basterdised to slander the Jewish people. The scenes in the Republic of Ireland put it well ahead in the line of those who wish the Jewish homeland ill and interestingly that country is where the word boycott originated.
https://youtu.be/vAHNZyoGAU8?si=aZI1DUOQspMEriZs
Thank you for the additional information. And for the link - I literally felt a chill when Robeson started the Kaddish.
Thank you for the link. Very powerful.
Gratitude for the commentary and link to Paul Robeson's powerful rendition of the Chassidic Chant and Kaddish.
As Ben-Gurion said, “OOM, SCHMOOM” about that despicable organization. The only reason we want it in NYC is to spy on them and support hookers and liquor when the Muslim representatives are here.
I just watched the video. Hamas and the Palestinians have no interest in peace. They just want to murder the Jews and ethnically cleanse Israel as the Islamists have done throughout the Middle East. Get this depraved hostage deal done and the only way for Israel to have any peace is to continue to prepare for war. There are no innocent civilians. They are all enemy combatants. They tell you they want to murder the Jews. They have never stopped doing this nor have they ever said Israel and the Jews have a right to exist.
So agree with you on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, established by the UN. It is abhorrent. Yom HaShoah is on the 27th of Nisan. The day the uprising in the Warzaw Ghetto started.
Quite cathartic after all the emotional upheaval/rollercoaster of a read to reach this line: “And you know who didn’t get to live? This guy.”
Very hard watching the videos, but necessary! A wonderful piece of writing, Eve. Where and when will the horrors end! Xx
Powerful writing Eve. Your insight and writing is inspired by the Divine.
Spot on and utterly devastating as always 💙
Thank you, Eve, as always. Such clarity. I continue to feel rage when I read some of the mainstream media reports (New York Times primarily) where they can't bring themselves to actually name the American hostages, or when they feature a picture of Gaza rubble in a story about the most recent hostage release. Sometimes I feel like I'm losing my mind, but then I read your posts and realize that it's not all in my head.