I thought about writing a post on the one-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks, but Rabbi Denise Handlarski, who runs Secular Synagogue, wrote an editorial for the Tornoto Star that’s close to my thinking:

Rather, it’s that the pain of a parent who lost a child on October 7th, and the pain of a parent who lost a child to an Israeli air strike, are exactly the same. That pain cannot be captured or healed by slogans, posturing, self-righteousness, or quippy take-downs. And the more we refuse to see the pain of the other, the more that pain gets weaponized into violence.