Make New York Post a Preferred Source Members of the public carry the Israeli flag at a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, 2026. BIANCA DE MARCHI/EPA/Shutterstock Three years have passed since the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023 — the wholesale murder, rape and torture of more than 1,200 men, women, children and infants in Israel.
Yet as Jews everywhere gather to mourn, what should be a day of quiet reflection and prayer, of defiant cries of “Never again,” is being eclipsed by something dark and obscene.
The tragedy of 10/7 has ripped the veil off the antisemitism that has always bubbled below the surface. As the nation of Israel dares to defend itself against an existential threat, the gloves have come off.
Jew hatred is now more than a quiet obsession. It is cool. In Hollywood, Jew hate has emerged from the shadows and become a chic and trendy pastime. World-famous antisemites such as Susan Sarandon, Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardem don keffiyeh in solidarity with bloodthirsty terrorists. Onstage, musicians Macklemore and Zach Bryan rant about fictional Palestinian “genocide” while snubbing their nosesat Jewish agony.
In Brooklyn, NY, public school teacher Damien Neva celebrates the mastermind of Jewish slaughter. “Long live Yahya Al-Sinwar,” he crowed in an online group chat about the late terrormeister.
As of this writing, he was still shaping young minds in the classroom.
In Gracie Mansion, the mayor of the city second only to Israel in its concentration of Jews, entertains Holocaust deniers and 10/7 sympathizers, ramping up a record wave of anti-Jewish hate crimes. Instead of protecting all the people of this city, Mayor Zohran Mamdani agitates for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while surrounding himself with like-minded socialist staffers, advisers and adoring acolytes who share Hizzoner’s disdain and contempt for Jews.
In each case, there are zero consequences and maximum rewards for exhibiting this one formof bigotry.
On college and university campuses, professors lecture hate as protesters attack and harass Jewish students. Then they all hide behind First Amendment free-speech protections, which I thought did not guarantee one’s right to spew hate speech.
And it doesn’t stop there. “Progressive” politicians make careers out of falsely accusing Israeli forces of committing “genocide.” In reality, it is the one true democracy in the Middle East, and it guarantees all its citizens, including Muslims and Christians, gay or straight, male, female and non-binary, equal rights and equal opportunity to employment. Troops go above and beyond to prevent civilian deaths.
But when a rare politician Sen. John Fetterman threatens to leave the Democratic Party if its members’ anti-Israel policies get any worse, he’s treated with contempt and ridicule. And when performer Boy George stands up for the Jewish people, he is vilified and dumped by friends and music-industry colleagues. Canceled.
I approached the day of this solemn anniversary hoping for a massive show of solidarity and joy in Jewish survival. Instead, I can see that we, as a society, have learned nothing from 10/7. Like the Jews who miraculously wrestled flydubai 1073 from the hands of terrorist copilot Hamam al-Hammam, saving the lives of all 174 souls aboard, there is just one tragic takeaway from the Hamas massacre of Oct.7: In matters of life and death, Jews must go it alone.
