The 2023 movie “Irene’s Wish” tells the true story of Polish nurse Irena Gut Opdykewho became the governess of a major in the German army during World War II. She manages to hide 12 Jews in a Nazi officer’s villa to save them from extermination in the death camps.
An innkeeper she meets encourages Irena to keep a low profile in order to survive. When he realizes she is hiding Jews, he feigns ignorance:”I don’t want to know anything.”
No one, in America or anywhere else, in 2024 can say they are ignorant of the rampant anti-Semitism that plagues elite American universities, around the world, and at the hands of Hamas terrorists.
But have times really changed? Has history taught us anything about how anti-Semitism spreads and propagates?
Israeli army recovers bodies of 6 hostages
On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces recovered the bodies of six hostagesincluding Hersh Goldberg-Polina 23-year-old Israeli-American from a tunnel in Gaza where he was being held captive by Hamas.
Hamas suggested on Monday that the captives were executed because Israeli forces were about to rescue them. The terrorist group also threatened to murder dozens of remaining hostages if Israel tries to free them.
Hamas has published propaganda images hostages, including 24-year-old Eden Yerushalmi. In the video, she says she misses her family, doesn’t think she can get out of Gaza alive and accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of abandoning her and other hostages.
Hamas also killed hostages Ori Danino, 25, Alex Lobanov, 32, Carmel Gat, 40, and Almog Sarusi, 27.
The fate of the hostages changes every second: American and world leaders must help them return home
The captives were among more than 200 hostages taken on October 7, when Hamas invaded Israel and murdered 1,189 innocent peoplemost of whom were civilians. Hamas is still holding at least 101 hostages, including seven americans.
Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza says more than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began last fall.
Biden blames Netanyahu, but is the US doing enough?
The hostage killings have exacerbated a tense political environment in Israel. 500,000 people took to the streets of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to protest the deaths of the hostages and the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government handled negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of the hostages.
Even President Joe Biden gave his approval on Monday. that Netanyahu did not do enough to help free the hostages.
Yet it is unclear how Biden could pin any responsibility for these killings on Netanyahu. After all, one American hostage was killed and other Americans remain in captivity. Is Biden not doing enough to secure the hostages’ release?
From the parents of an American hostage: For five months we believed our son was alive. Free the Hamas hostages and spare others our suffering.
The fact is that Netanyahu and the Israeli government have tried to obtain a…
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