I take words at face value. If they say they want to exterminate you, then you are blameless if you act accordingly. My great grandmother was from an “Overmountain” family—the very first settlers of far eastern TN and western NC. They settled there to be left alone. During the AmRev A British officer , Patrick Ferguson issued a warning that if they continued to aid the rebels he would, “come over the mountains, hang the men and lay fire and sword to their settlements”. So the Overmountain men armed and provisioned up, marched a couple hundred miles, tracked down Ferguson and his men….and killed them. Mopped up the remainder, hanged a dozen or so. And went home. Nobody f-d with them after that. Take that lesson to heart.
You have my sincere sympathy and support, but let me point something out: The Guardian has been anti-Israel from forever, and you yourself were anti-settlement and anti-Bibi. There may be good reasons for those opinions, but I highly doubt that you know any of them. I assume you went along with the enlightened crowd and hated what they hated, liked what they liked and tolerated what they tolerated (again, Palestinian savagery is not a new thing).
Until this happened. I'll quote Douglas Murray once again, because the metaphor is just that good: "Sometimes a flare goes up and you see exactly where everyone is."
I don't think this should make you pro-settlement or pro-Bibi, but it should make you refuse to accept any of the opinions you've accepted on Israel until you've gathered information and thought about them seriously for yourself.
Those applauding the vile attacks of Oct 7 has revealed something incredibly dark and disturbing about their beliefs and values. I feel for you. Best wishes and I hope you find a far better work environment.
What unnerves me is that Bari Weiss and you both worked for newspapers that have been AS for years, and one could easily see this. So, why did you not see it earlier? Did you think the Holocaust was a one off? You mention opposing Netanyahu, but it was the Left in Israel, like Haaretz,, that were bosom buddies with the Left in Britain. I'm glad you are awakening, but not far enough in my view. You have to move farther to the Right as the Left is anathema to Jews and a Jewish future. My Father's neighbors tried to turn them in once the Nazis made it to their town in Poland. My Grandfather's oldest son was shot in the head by the Nazis outside of their headquarters in a small town for daring to come in place of his sick Father. I get it that there are good people. But, it is easy to tell the difference on the Guardian staff. You just believed and sided more with the AS than you did with Jews facing modern day extermination. Just stop with the Leftist act, there is nothing wrong with Bibi. There was something wrong with Leftists. Leftism is the enemy because groups like Hamas are enemies of ALL peoples, including Arabs, and the Left sides with them.
This was very hard to read. As many other accounts since October 7th. My workplace has been eerily silent since the atrocities took place. A two sentence email was sent 5 days too late. I am not Jewish but respect the Jewish spirit of perseverance. I cannot understand the hate they have had to endure time after time. It's truly terrible.
A Jewish friend and neighbor here in Los Angeles who died this summer, age 97, would tell me, "It's coming. I'm telling you, it's coming." She had a tendency to exaggerate, so I would silently dismiss her words as I nodded in agreement. Forgive me, Hilda.
This person is just figuring this out now? The Guardian has been a Nazi, Jew-hating, pro-genocidal rag FOR FORTY YEARS! This Jew-hatred came out in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Melanie Phillips left the paper more than 20 years ago because it was a modern day Der Stuermer. The same is true of the BBC. The main mission of both outlets appears to be the extermination of the Jews.
Why Israel lets either of these pro-genocide outlets continue to operate in the country is beyond me. Freedom of the press is not so absolute as to be facilitate suicide.
The Guardian does not survive on revenue from readers. It is supported by left wing anti-Semitic zealots. This is not news. Condolences to you and yours.
I have been having "both sides" debates for 20 years. I knew that there could be no peace with people who deny Isreals right to exist. That was born out October 7, 2023. The incredibly biased coverage shocked me. Kind, respectable friends shocked me with their anti-Semitic rhetoric. Nothing justifies this. Isreal is fighting for the rights of Jews to EXIST.
This testimony is absolutely chilling. I am so saddened by this. I felt in a way that I was able to really be in your shoes and feel what this must feel like for you. It’s horrific. I am so sorry.
I have so many dear, beloved, close Jewish people in my life. I cannot in any way comprehend why there is such hatred towards Jews. I find zero offense in them as a whole.
The only way it makes sense is that it is spiritual. The ancient battle between God and Satan for dominion of the earth is playing out once again. Everything is as prophesied. Israel, God’s chosen people, is once again being targeted by the evil one. He refuses to accept that Jesus already defeated him on the cross.
Does that sound farfetched or bizarre? Otherwise, how can such evil spread so quickly? How can people be so blind and ignorant? How other than a move of the spirit which has overtaken otherwise seemingly lovely people?
There will be those will suggest you should have known & others who will suggest so what - what about those in Gaza etc. Nothing will quickly ease the pain of having your reality change so suddenly & seeing those people around you, the "friends", colleagues, bosses who laughed & were so utterly tone deaf & immune to a real life human need right in front of them. However this post is anonymous & while we can all appreciate why, it would be so interesting to know who these people are and to expose their hypocrisies. Every. Single. Post. Every single silence is violence, me too, believe all women, believe the victim, all those posts all those chants and theories about intent versus impact and expose every last one. Because yes- the Guardian does rely on donor dollars & donors need to know who these people are so we can choose where we wish to spend our dollars & where we will take our clicks. 1) Not to the Guardian and not to these people
When you leave, write a public resignation letter like Bari did when she left the N.Y. Times. We cannot be silent!!
I take words at face value. If they say they want to exterminate you, then you are blameless if you act accordingly. My great grandmother was from an “Overmountain” family—the very first settlers of far eastern TN and western NC. They settled there to be left alone. During the AmRev A British officer , Patrick Ferguson issued a warning that if they continued to aid the rebels he would, “come over the mountains, hang the men and lay fire and sword to their settlements”. So the Overmountain men armed and provisioned up, marched a couple hundred miles, tracked down Ferguson and his men….and killed them. Mopped up the remainder, hanged a dozen or so. And went home. Nobody f-d with them after that. Take that lesson to heart.
You have my sincere sympathy and support, but let me point something out: The Guardian has been anti-Israel from forever, and you yourself were anti-settlement and anti-Bibi. There may be good reasons for those opinions, but I highly doubt that you know any of them. I assume you went along with the enlightened crowd and hated what they hated, liked what they liked and tolerated what they tolerated (again, Palestinian savagery is not a new thing).
Until this happened. I'll quote Douglas Murray once again, because the metaphor is just that good: "Sometimes a flare goes up and you see exactly where everyone is."
I don't think this should make you pro-settlement or pro-Bibi, but it should make you refuse to accept any of the opinions you've accepted on Israel until you've gathered information and thought about them seriously for yourself.
Those applauding the vile attacks of Oct 7 has revealed something incredibly dark and disturbing about their beliefs and values. I feel for you. Best wishes and I hope you find a far better work environment.
What unnerves me is that Bari Weiss and you both worked for newspapers that have been AS for years, and one could easily see this. So, why did you not see it earlier? Did you think the Holocaust was a one off? You mention opposing Netanyahu, but it was the Left in Israel, like Haaretz,, that were bosom buddies with the Left in Britain. I'm glad you are awakening, but not far enough in my view. You have to move farther to the Right as the Left is anathema to Jews and a Jewish future. My Father's neighbors tried to turn them in once the Nazis made it to their town in Poland. My Grandfather's oldest son was shot in the head by the Nazis outside of their headquarters in a small town for daring to come in place of his sick Father. I get it that there are good people. But, it is easy to tell the difference on the Guardian staff. You just believed and sided more with the AS than you did with Jews facing modern day extermination. Just stop with the Leftist act, there is nothing wrong with Bibi. There was something wrong with Leftists. Leftism is the enemy because groups like Hamas are enemies of ALL peoples, including Arabs, and the Left sides with them.
They were actually laughing and celebrating the death of Jews!!! Every time I think the Left can't get worse, they do.
I don't know how this stops, when liberals are cheering on Jewish deaths.
This was very hard to read. As many other accounts since October 7th. My workplace has been eerily silent since the atrocities took place. A two sentence email was sent 5 days too late. I am not Jewish but respect the Jewish spirit of perseverance. I cannot understand the hate they have had to endure time after time. It's truly terrible.
A Jewish friend and neighbor here in Los Angeles who died this summer, age 97, would tell me, "It's coming. I'm telling you, it's coming." She had a tendency to exaggerate, so I would silently dismiss her words as I nodded in agreement. Forgive me, Hilda.
Imagine lecturing people on empathy for years and then celebrating a pogrom in front of a traumatized Jew.
This person is just figuring this out now? The Guardian has been a Nazi, Jew-hating, pro-genocidal rag FOR FORTY YEARS! This Jew-hatred came out in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
Melanie Phillips left the paper more than 20 years ago because it was a modern day Der Stuermer. The same is true of the BBC. The main mission of both outlets appears to be the extermination of the Jews.
Why Israel lets either of these pro-genocide outlets continue to operate in the country is beyond me. Freedom of the press is not so absolute as to be facilitate suicide.
The Guardian does not survive on revenue from readers. It is supported by left wing anti-Semitic zealots. This is not news. Condolences to you and yours.
I have been having "both sides" debates for 20 years. I knew that there could be no peace with people who deny Isreals right to exist. That was born out October 7, 2023. The incredibly biased coverage shocked me. Kind, respectable friends shocked me with their anti-Semitic rhetoric. Nothing justifies this. Isreal is fighting for the rights of Jews to EXIST.
This testimony is absolutely chilling. I am so saddened by this. I felt in a way that I was able to really be in your shoes and feel what this must feel like for you. It’s horrific. I am so sorry.
I have so many dear, beloved, close Jewish people in my life. I cannot in any way comprehend why there is such hatred towards Jews. I find zero offense in them as a whole.
The only way it makes sense is that it is spiritual. The ancient battle between God and Satan for dominion of the earth is playing out once again. Everything is as prophesied. Israel, God’s chosen people, is once again being targeted by the evil one. He refuses to accept that Jesus already defeated him on the cross.
Does that sound farfetched or bizarre? Otherwise, how can such evil spread so quickly? How can people be so blind and ignorant? How other than a move of the spirit which has overtaken otherwise seemingly lovely people?
Bari, please give this person a job immediately so they can get the hell away from The Guardian!
There will be those will suggest you should have known & others who will suggest so what - what about those in Gaza etc. Nothing will quickly ease the pain of having your reality change so suddenly & seeing those people around you, the "friends", colleagues, bosses who laughed & were so utterly tone deaf & immune to a real life human need right in front of them. However this post is anonymous & while we can all appreciate why, it would be so interesting to know who these people are and to expose their hypocrisies. Every. Single. Post. Every single silence is violence, me too, believe all women, believe the victim, all those posts all those chants and theories about intent versus impact and expose every last one. Because yes- the Guardian does rely on donor dollars & donors need to know who these people are so we can choose where we wish to spend our dollars & where we will take our clicks. 1) Not to the Guardian and not to these people
Unbelievable. We're reliving 1939.