After Losing 1400 Family Members, It’s OK if I Suffer a Little
It’s as if all the victims of the October 7 massacres have lodged themselves in my brain.
David Suissa is Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Tribe Media/Jewish Journal, where he has been writing a weekly column on the Jewish world since 2006. In 2015, he was awarded first prize for "Editorial Excellence" by the American Jewish Press Association. Prior to Tribe Media, David was founder and CEO of Suissa Miller Advertising, a marketing firm named “Agency of the Year” by USA Today. He sold his company in 2006 to devote himself full time to his first passion: Israel and the Jewish world. David was born in Casablanca, Morocco, grew up in Montreal, and now lives in Los Angeles with his five children.
It’s as if all the victims of the October 7 massacres have lodged themselves in my brain.
While Jews were mourning the atrocities of October 7, progressive Jew haters were panicking at the potential loss of their foundational narrative.
That’s a hard pill to swallow: 1300 Jews get massacred and it’s the Jewish students who are not feeling safe. The upside is that I’ve never seen such a show of Jewish unity.
As I saw the horror, which got worse by the hour, my mind swung wildly between the disaster and my job. Consumed by grief one minute, obsessed with our coverage the next.
The anti-Israel class has never looked so clueless and callous. The atrocities of October 7 have exposed them for what they are: anti-Israel robots.
We’ve never seen a savage volcano of violence like the one we saw on October 7.
What Hamas can’t stomach, above all, is a world that admires Israel. In the cesspool of its terror doctrine, the Jewish state is an evil that is meant to be destroyed, not admired.
Evidently, this is Zuckerberg’s vision for our future: Stay home, put goggles on your face and connect with the “hyper-realism” of human avatars.
Uniquely Jewish rituals like building a sukkah can give Jews real skin in the game.
Can we ever get to a point where we can surrender to our inner goodness?