The situation we are experiencing freezes the heart. It is necessary to repudiate and listen to voices of support in the face of the anti-Semitic escalation. Let no one shut up.
Not even a week passed since the ferocious attacks of Hamas and this already seems like a century to us. To hear that they killed babies, pregnant womenwho entered a Kinder gardenthat they kidnapped young people from a rave and friends of family or families of friends, it freezes our hearts and time stands still.
When faced with beautiful memories we say “it seems like yesterday”, the birth of our children, the marriage or the bat mitzvah from my daughter Lola, in March. But, in the face of horror, time does not advance and we are on pause. We see videos asking for the prompt release of hostages, including Ofelia Felerthe sister of my dad’s lifelong friend, Jose Feler, whose children, Ofelia’s nephews, are dear friends today; ask for the liberation of the Argentines Iair and Eitan Hornask to hear good news soon, pray for peace, repeat “Am Israel Jai”sing the Hatikva (Israel’s anthem that means Hope), march last Monday to see us together and resisting, remember that after 30 years there is still no justice for the attacks on the Israeli Embassy and AMIA. It shakes that you have to resistas if Nazism were expanding again before the incomprehensible silence from a part of the world.
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It is necessary to repudiate and listen to voices of support before the antisemitic escalation which already had windows broken and stones hit in Jewish institutions. Let no one shut up. Silence makes us feel alone again and reminds us that there is systemic and implicit anti-Semitism. The overideologization leads to condemning with buts. Terrorism must be condemned, period. It is not an escalation of the conflict in Middle Eastis not a global condemnation of violence on both sides, because the war response of Israel comes after the worst attack since Yom Kippur War and generated the worst massacre of Jews since the Shoah. There were 6 million.
My parents traveled in April of this year to March for Lifethey toured ghettos and extermination camps in Europe to end in Israel celebrating Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) and before they witnessed in Poland a massive event in memory of the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. This happened 80 years ago and a large part of the European leaders were there. It was shocking, my parents said. Walking through the forests where our ancestors did, stepping on the train tracks that transported them to the fields. It was as heartbreaking as it was necessary. The “never again” of the Jewish people is the Shoah. What is so difficult to understand? Saturday, October 7th was for Israel what he 9/11 for USA. Who can not repudiate it? Myriam Bregman? There were 30 thousand missing and dead in Argentina, yes. There were 6 million Jews in the Shoah. Everything is condemnable. Let’s say never again to everything.
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Thousands of teenage boys who had traveled to Israel weeks ago they are returning starting today on emergency planes. I am connected with my classmates from primary school who live in Israel, Hernan Floreswith whom I did my Bat Mitzvah, and Leo Abiadand they tell us that, from their shelters and despite the situation, they are fine and helping the soldiers. Nobody hesitates to return.
Today I am alive because of those non-Jews who helped my ancestors escape, because my four grandparents were Argentine but their ancestors came from Poland and Russia. But my husband’s grandfather, Enrik Halbzajtescaped from the extermination camps and was reunited with his wife Jan in Argentinaand thanks to that I was able to form the family I have today.
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On Wednesday there was a challah kneading in the community Dor Hadash to ask for the peace and the prompt appearance alive of the hostages. We knead because we carry our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers inside us. And to all our people. In each ingredient we have something of what a bob, we evoke past generations that are inevitably within us, perhaps without registering it. But there they are. The flame only stays lit when it is not forgotten. In each braiding, in each baking, there is the family and the people of Israel. In each ritual of lighting the candles, making the kiddush or sing, there is also our family and our history. We will continue to be grateful that we were able to get to this moment together. Sheejeianu ve kimanu ve ighianu la zman aze. And we will continue fighting for peace.
Source: Ambito
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