What I found at the NYC protest on Oct. 7: No room for Jewish grief
Over the last three years, Jews have wrestled with many questions about the Palestine solidarity movement that emerged with great force after Oct. 7, 2023. Is it simply a movement deeply critical of the State…
Assessment
The piece confronts a painful split: a protest movement that sees itself as anti-occupation but, on the anniversary of Hamas's attacks, offered no space for Jewish mourning. The author's eyewitness account matters because it moves the debate from abstract accusations of antisemitism to a concrete scene. The real question is whether mainstream progressives will treat this as an outlier or as evidence of a deeper problem. Watch whether Jewish peace activists can still find common ground with a movement that excludes their grief.