A woman who survived the terrifying massacre carried out by Hamas militants at an Israeli music festival two weeks ago said she doesn’t feel safe at home in New York as demonstrators protest against the conflict.
Hamas militants indiscriminately opened fire at revelers at the Supernova music festival in southern Israel on October 7, the day the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas broke out. Video taken at the scene shows Hamas gunmen pouring out of trucks and firing off multiple rounds. Around 260 people died, and others were taken hostage.
The organizers of the festival said the attack was “a scene of unspeakable tragedy, an inhumane war crime, and unprecedented violation of the most basic human values.”
Natalie Sanandaji, a 28-year-old American woman who survived the Supernova attack, told The New York Post that since returning to Long Island, she’s been scared by acts of anti-Semitism in the United States.
“A lot of people have asked if I’m scared to go back to Israel after everything that’s happened, and my honest answer is … now more than ever, I want to move to Israel,” Sanandaji said. “Even with everything going on, I feel safer there than I do in the US right now.”
She said she has Jewish friends who are removing their mezuzahs from their doorframes. A mezuzah is a rolled-up metallic parchment with prayers inscribed on it that’s often affixed to the doorpost of a Jewish home.
In Germany, Jewish homes are getting marked with Star of David graffiti, as The Messenger previously reported.
“A lot of what is happening right now are things that happened right before the Holocaust,” Sanandaji said.
She said college students who are protesting the conflict on campuses do not understand that the “fight is about Israel vs Hamas.”
Students at college campuses all over the country have been engaging in protests in support of and against Israeli actions.
At a pro-Palestinian rally at the University of Washington, for example, Jewish students were caught on camera pleading with school administrators to shut the protest down.
“Whatever your stance on Palestine vs Israel is your stance — and all the power to you — but what people have to understand is that’s not what this fight about this right now, this fight is Israel vs Hamas, a terrorist organization that is just as complicit in the deaths of innocent Palestinians as they are in deaths of innocent Israelis,” she said.
“Even though I’m here and I’m no longer in the line of fire, the truth is, I do still feel nervous,” Sanandaji told The Post.
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