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On October 7, 2023, Sapir Cohen, a young Israeli woman who was visiting her boyfriend’s family during the religious holiday of Simchat Torah, was taken hostage. She was held captive in Gaza for 55 days before being released in a deal with Hamas terrorists. They took her and hundreds of other Israelis captive. Cohen’s boyfriend, Sasha Trofanov, has been locked up along with 100 others for exactly one year today.
Ms. Cohen visited my children’s overnight residential program this summer and shared her own experiences, speaking to campers about the plight of those stranded in Gaza.
She said: [in the tunnels] There’s no light. Sometimes the terrorists used flashlights, but they still couldn’t see anything. There is no air,” she went on to describe the lack of oxygen, the prevalence of damp and mold, and the lack of food. She went through this for less than two months, while Sasha and 100 others went through it for 12 months.
She knows the world is losing interest, so she goes everywhere she can to share her story to raise awareness about the hostages who wasted a year in the Gaza tunnels. Masu. There are still no yellow ribbons commemorating the four American hostages on trees in small American towns. There was also no large memorial to Hersh Goldberg Pollin, the American boy taken hostage and executed in the Gaza tunnels a month earlier.
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Even Trofanov’s own employer deserted him. Despite working as an engineer on important projects for Amazon, the Seattle-based company has remained silent about his plight.
Amazon is not alone in its indifference to incarcerated Jewish employees. A year ago, Guy Gilboa Dalal, an employee of PepsiCo’s SodaStream subsidiary, was also taken prisoner, but Pepsi has remained silent. Pepsi has had no problem speaking out and elevating other social issues, but when it comes to its own staff kidnapped from a music festival, it can’t be bothered to insist on his immediate and unconditional release. .
On October 7, Remembrance Day, hostage Emily Damari’s mother Mandy spoke out about her daughter who was violently abducted from the kibbutz Kfar Azha on the Gaza border.
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Mundy, speaking in a British accent, said: “I felt like the British people were behind her, the British government was behind her and she was saying there were British hostages being held in a tunnel of terror by Hamas in Gaza.” I want her to know that she’s there, that she’s a young woman, and that no one knows what’s going on with her, and to remind her of her. please. people knew she was there [and] Make sure she doesn’t forget. ”
The worst fears of their families and loved ones have come true. Sasha, Guy and Emily were forgotten. Simply and frankly, hostages and their families feel alone and abandoned. Their employers have abandoned them, their governments have abandoned them. The world’s communities and organizations tasked with defending the most vulnerable among us have made it clear that Jews are not included in the hierarchy of victims.
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The victims of October 7th have not only been forgotten, they have been turned into oppressors by evil individuals and organizations who have decided that Jewish lives simply do not matter.
In the days leading up to the anniversary, Amnesty International UK justified the genocide and cautioned believers: “Don’t let anyone tell you it all started on October 7, 2023.”
In response to Amnesty, pro-Israel influencer Hen Majich said: “So when did it start? In 2002, during the Second Intifada, when I almost died in a terrorist attack. Or in 1951, when my family was expelled from Tunisia.” Or during the Farhud era in 1941, when my family was murdered and expelled from Iraq? Or when did the 1929 Hebron Massacre begin? Why would you post a video like this on a day that commemorates the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust? And 101 hostages have been held in Gaza for 365 days, so for us October 7th It’s not over yet. ”
One year later, millions of Jews, both Americans and Israelis, are still trapped on October 7th, but the year is still 2023, not 2024. Life has moved on as we scramble for sympathy, relevance, and attention. While the world celebrates holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter and Passover, we struggle to remind the world that we’re still stuck in October. And then we returned in October.
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In her famous book Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery wrote, “I am so glad to live in a world where there is October.”
For Jews, our world has been just October these past 12 months. Back in October, we are reminded that all 101 people are still trapped in Gaza. October 7th won’t stop until they’re all home.
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