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@MarkLevineNYC, you say October 7 shook you “to my core” and that remembering these tragedies is a “solemn obligation.”
You also endorsed Mamdani.
Today, the man you backed gives the victims an opening paragraph before turning his statement into accusations of Israeli “genocide,” “apartheid” and American “complicity.”
You say we’re still grappling with how best to memorialize October 7. Here’s a place to start: tell the mayor you endorsed that the victims are not an opening act for his political argument against Israel.
Will you say that to him publicly?
My phone started buzzing with messages from friends in Israel early on October 7th. The unfolding catastrophe shook me to my core. Three years later it still feels raw.
In the Jewish community, we have made memorializing tragedies—going back 2,500 years—a solemn obligation. I believe that has been an important source of our strength and resilience.
I have no doubt that October 7th will endure as one of those historic tragedies, though just three years later, we are still grappling with how best to memorialize this fresh horror.
I hope and believe that, ultimately, out of the pain of so many innocent lives lost, we will build a better, more peaceful future.