For many of us, Oct. 7th 2023 was hurtful not just because of the attack, but even more so because of the casual justifications that followed. Friends and colleagues insisting that slaughtering more than a thousand people in their homes was not a crime, just some sort of perfectly reasonable resistance. The open approval and even admiration for Hamas, making plain that their massacre and hostage taking was perfectly fine. The attack was physical violence. The justifications that followed were violence against our........

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