Silence Is Not An Option
I find myself at a loss for words these days — not because there’s nothing to say, but because there’s too much suffering to capture in words.
To watch, in real time, the devastation and killing of innocent people in Gaza — children, parents, grandparents — is to witness something that shakes the very core of what it means to be human.
And yet, the world’s most powerful leaders, who speak so easily of “never again,” seem unable or unwilling to act.
The same nations that rightly teach us to remember the horror of past genocides, now remain silent. Or worse, they send bombs and money that fuel new ones.
This perspective does NOT deny the history of Jewish suffering — instead, it is to insist that “never again” must mean never again for anyone, anywhere, forever.
It is deeply wrong and profoundly sad, that those who dare to speak this truth are so often silenced with accusations of anti-Semitism or hate, when what moves them is the opposite i.e. a deep love for human life and a refusal to look away.
This isn’t about politics; it’s about people. About the simple, sacred truth that no child, anywhere, at any time, should pay for the crimes of governments.
Watching a genocide occur in real time leaves me cold, leaves me speechless and fills me with despair for the current state of world politics 😭 💔
I do not see myself as an activist - I lack the passion and energy required for this kind of important work, but today, I have reached a breaking point. I have had enough of this BS that is constantly imposed on us by our powerful, yet weak leaders. Must we simply accept the status quo?
No!
We can feel despair, and still refuse to be silent. We can feel powerless, and still choose to speak.
History shows us that silence enables atrocity — and that ordinary people raising their voices, again and again, can shift what once seemed immovable.
Even when the world’s leaders fail, our shared humanity doesn’t have to.
And perhaps, by refusing to look away, by refusing to accept this as “normal,” we keep alive the very hope and conscience the world so desperately needs.
Can we stop this evil?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/23/israel-gaza-starvation-humanitarian-groups-letter