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This failure will not define us NOAH FARKAS CEO, Jewish Federation of Los angeles
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ur hearts hurt. Our pain is real. It feels like failure. For 330 days, Hersh Goldberg-Polin languished in the dark. For 330 days, he fought back against despair and kept striving for life. For 330 days, he suffered, waiting for rescue. For 330 days, his was the face and name we recognized. For 330 days, our thoughts were with him in the muck and the dark. Our thoughts were with Hersh in the tunnel, in the hot oppressive air with yelling and the pounding of artillery in the background. Our hopes were with him. Our sense of righteousness was with him. We girded our strength with him for 330 days. That’s why on day 331, when we found out that he, Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat and Almog Sarusi were all murdered by Hamas within 48 hours of
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their discovery by the Israeli military, we felt like we failed him. “I apologize on behalf of the State of Israel that we failed to protect you in the terrible disaster of Oct. 7, that we failed to bring you home safely,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Hebrew at Hersh’s funeral. “I apologize that the country you immigrated to at the age of 7, wrapped in the Israeli flag, could not keep you safe.” t’s easy for us to feel failure in this moment; we see it everywhere. We feel like we fail when we can’t end this war with victory and bring our loved ones home. We feel like we fail as 60,000 Israelis are still living in hotels and hostels instead of their homes in the north. We feel like we fail when children playing soccer are eviscerated by a rocket. We see failure in the United States, where our universities do not protect Jewish students and faculty. We feel like the media has failed us by allowing hate-filled disinformation to libel the Jewish people. We feel like the world has failed us, again, by blaming Israel for its own existence, blaming Israeli women for their See This failure will not define on page 2
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Families at the levaya of hostage Eden Yerushalmi in Petach Tikva on Monday.
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War against Jews on campus: Round 2 JonaThan S. Tobin
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tudents returning to colleges across the United States are often finding that the war against the Jews on their campuses is hardly over. On the contrary, in round two their ability to live openly as identifiable Jews and supporters of the one Jewish state may be just as dangerous as it was last year. •At the University of Michigan, Israel-haters not only harassed newly
Pro-Palestinian Encampment at Harvard University.
arriving students but shut down student government to push the school to adopt an illegal discriminatory BDS divestment program. •At Temple University in Philadelphia, members of the openly antisemitic Students for Justice in Palestine made clear their intentions and strategy by starting the semester with a demonstration outside of the school’s Hillel chapter while waving the flag of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a designated foreign terrorist organization. That they would choose to target Hillel, which has, for the most part, not been in the vanguard of the pro-Israel movement but is in most cases simply a communal group for Jewish under-
graduates, says all there is about what it means to be “pro-Palestine” in 2024. These are just two of many examples where anti-Israel agitators have shown that they are prepared to resume the same siege on Jewish campus life that was the hallmark of the 2023-24 academic year in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities in southern Israel that launched the current war. Some university presidents have lost their jobs for their indifference to the surge in Jew-hatred within their institutions; others have voluntarily resigned, albeit under pressure for their actions (or rather, their inaction). But for the most part, the end result from See War against Jews on page 2