We all walked in together: faith leaders, civic leaders, educators, elected officials, Jew and Christian. At the invitation of the Consul-General of Israel, we attended a private screening of the Hamas attack on Israel. We sat down at tables together and listened to the Consul General prepare us for what we were going to see.
Then, for 45 long minutes, we watched raw, unedited footage of men, women, and children being shot and killed, beheaded, hacked up, fathers killed in front of their children while screaming “Papa, Papa,” bodies burned en masse, dead civilians and soldiers desecrated and dragged through the streets as some sort of trophy.
We watched injured civilians being carted off to be kept alive as hostages. The footage was captured from Hamas body cams and correlated with traffic-camera video, Israeli responder body cam video,victims’ mobile phones, car dash cams, and private footage
from within homes.
In those 45 minutes, we witnessed exactly what happened to approximately 12 of the 240 held hostage, and 138 of the 1,400 killed on October 7, 2023.
If you saw the movie “Saving Private Ryan,” you might recall the scene when the German soldier, who had been set free by the Americans, meets back up with the platoon and finds the American Jewish soldier. The German slowly stabs the American to death while talking to him up close and personal. It’s the most chilling scene of the movie.
Each of the murders by Hamas (and their civilian accomplices) was deeply personal just like that movie scene. But
what we saw was real.
It was so personal that the terrorists celebrated with sheer joy. They elatedly shouted with huge smiles on their faces in their selfie videos at the time they took innocent human life. They called home to mom & dad to celebrate their deadly “accomplishments.”
Why am I sharing this with you?
Because it’s all connected to our cause.
Linda Sarsour has reappeared in the spotlight. Ms. Sarsour has been participating in some of the recent protests, fomenting hate and violence toward Jews by making comments such as, “There are provocateurs all across the city" waiting for you to rip down "their little posters ...They have their little people all around the city...Trust me I know them I have a radar for them… They are everywhere. They are on your college campus, they are outside
the supermarket..." Ms. Sarsour has headlined conferences for Jewish Voice for Peace alongside Rasmeah Odeh, who Sarsour champions. Odeh was sentenced to life in prison by an Israeli court in 1970 for her role in two 1969 bombings in Jerusalem, one near the British Consulate and another at a grocery store that killed two Hebrew University students and wounded nine.
Sarsour is co-founder of the Women’s March on Washington when, in 2021, women descended on the nation’s capital wearing pink hats to represent a certain body part of women. They marched for “reproductive freedom,” code for abortion.
She and her allied organizations started the shout your abortion movement.
