And we know what is to come next. For it happened to us not that long ago. And nobody cared. Just as, amazingly, nobody seems to care now. Oh sure, there were a few perfunctory denunciations in the day or two that followed the announcement, but nothing since.
Life goes on, even Jewish life.
How that can be is beyond my understanding. How synagogues have not held special prayer services, how Jewish organizations have not mobilized to lobby Congress and the United Nations, how Jews have not sent letters, organized rallies, held meetings is a disgrace. We, of all people, know. We, of all people, know how important it is for people to act, to care, to do something, to ache, to shout. Not despite the fact that the world didn t do that for us, but precisely because it did not do that for us.