Emily L. Hauser: Harvey Milk taught us that hope will never be silent. I've been largely silent on social since last week, when some horror in Gaza (possibly just that Masha Gessen piece) drained me of any words to speak on anything. Then the last several days happened in the US. I remain, for now, largely silent.

Harvey Milk taught us that hope will never be silent. I've been largely silent on social since last week, when some horror in Gaza (possibly just that Masha Gessen piece) drained me of any words to speak on anything. Then the last several days happened in the US. I remain, for now, largely silent.

Thinking about this as I've watched the doompost -> "now's not the time for doomposting" -> "let ppl doompost" cycle. The thing is, no one is doing well. If you're using this site *at all*, you are Having a A Bad Time. Some grace is in order. We're gonna need each other no matter what happens.

I'm going to regret this, but what Gessen piece?

It wasn't even directly about Gaza, per se - sometimes we have no ideas what's going to knock the wind out of us

We left Israel bc we couldn't consign our kids' lives to the machinery of occupation that defines Israeli Jewish life. This is the one place my heart held as a possible home; I took the kids there once to show them hope. Masha Gessen was on All In last night discussing their reporting. It broke me.

How a Palestinian/Jewish Village in Israel Changed After October 7thwww.newyorker.com Wahat al-Salam/Neve Shalom was founded on a total belief in the power of dialogue. In the wake of Hamas’s attack and amid Israel’s war in Gaza, a “very loud silence” has fallen.

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