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Another Wake-Up Call for America's Jews
(Washington Free Beacon) Ruth R. Wisse - Batya Ungar-Sargon, author of The Jews and the Left and a journalist originally from the same pool that staffs the liberal media, felt the shock of most American Jews following October 7. Although the massacre and kidnapping of Israelis was instantly identified in terms of its historical precedent as "the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust," and though an Arab-Islamist attack on a Jewish festival - 50 years after the Yom Kippur strike - could have been predicted, there was nothing familiar about the American response. No one could have foreseen that Ivy League students would promote a jihadist assault on a fellow democracy, celebrating rape and mass murder. Never had the liberal media, their Hollywood entourage, and members of Congress cheered those boasting of the Jewish blood on their hands. She looks at American Jewish history to understand what feels like betrayal. The writer is professor emerita at Harvard.