We are inching toward three years since October 7, and I have begun noticing something unsettling inside myself. As new reports, survivor testimony, investigations, and analysis continue to emerge, I find myself not simply reading the news or learning about these events, but reliving something through them.

The recent publication of “Silenced No More: Sexual Terror Unveiled” by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, along with the wave of discourse surrounding it, has left me feeling thrown backward. I do not mean intellectually disturbed, but physically interrupted. There are moments while taking in these accounts when I feel a kind of internal collapse: paralysis, panic, sadness; a feeling that makes me want to disappear, scream, and cry all at once.

I would have thought by now I’d have developed some kind of immunity to this feeling. I have always considered myself a resilient person, particularly when it comes to........

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