Report from the frontline: ‘Hell on earth’
Published in The Australian Jewish News
October 19, 2023
Photo: Oren Rosenfeld.
Warning: Graphic content.
No sooner had the world begun learning the extent of the recent atrocities committed by Hamas than there were those who began denying their validity.
Those who attempted to downplay or outright accuse Israel of fabricating these heinous acts.
And it’s ironic given that much of the photos and video recording Hamas’s barbaric murders were indeed captured and disseminated by the Hamas terrorists themselves.
Yet, too often in the fetid cesspool of social media did I see users question if indeed 40 babies were actually incinerated? And were they actually beheaded?
(And I can’t believe that is a sentence I am writing in 2023; not 1943).
Yes. It was true … My God, how I wish it wasn’t.
And finally, I understood what it means for the world to gaslight, disbelieve and outright deny a people’s experience of persecution; again, something I thought we could now abandon to the annals of history.