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My Word: Striking and ongoing memories of Shavuot | The Jerusalem Post

Jpost · · 1437 words · By LIAT COLLINS
Jewish Historical Trauma Anti-Palestinian Sentiment Israeli National Security
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22 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Simchat Torah... will forever be associated with the Iranian-funded, Hamas-led invasion and mega-atrocity on October 7, 2023, when 1,200 were murdered, 251 abducted, and thousands wounded.”
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Multiple independent sources (Britannica, Wikipedia, and a detailed report) confirm the October 7, 2023 attack led by Hamas, the death toll of approximately 1,200, and the abduction of 251 hostages. Wikipedia also links the event to the holiday of Simchat Torah.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since the October 7 attacks, which initiated the ongoing Gaza war, there has been a spread of conspiracy theories, largely antisemitic and on social media, focused on the argument that the attacks or …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_October_7_attack…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Middle Eastern crisis is an ongoing series of interrelated wars, conflicts, and heightened instability in the Middle East as a result of the Gaza war and genocide. It has primarily consisted of co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Eastern_crisis_(2023–pr…
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“Yom Kippur... the war launched against Israel on that day in 1973”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms the existence of the Yom Kippur War (also known as the 1973 Arab-Israeli War) which began on Yom Kippur in 1973.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jewish holidays, also known as Jewish festivals or Yamim Tovim (Hebrew: יָמִים טוֹבִים, romanized: yāmīm ṭōvīm, lit. 'Good Days', or singular Hebrew: יוֹם טוֹב‎ Yom Tov, in transliterated Hebrew [Engl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_holidays
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Yom Kippur ( YOM kip-OOR, YAWM KIP-ər, YOHM-; Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר‎ Yōm Kippūr [ˈjom kiˈpuʁ], lit. 'Day of Atonement') is the holiest day of the year in Judaism. It occurs annually on the 10th of Ti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, or the Ramadan War (6–25 October 1973), was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab sta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War
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“In recent years, it has been marred by a terror attack at a synagogue in Germany and last year’s fatal attack on a British synagogue in Manchester.”
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Multiple news sources (The Guardian, CNN) report on a terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, UK, including fatalities and arrests. While the Germany attack is not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets, the Manchester attack is well-documented across multiple outlets.
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web search NEUTRAL — Six minutes of terror: how Manchester synagogue attack unfolded.Hindi Cohen, another neighbour who attended the synagogue with Mr Cravitz, told The Times he was a “beloved” figure in the community. Sh…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/oct/03/manches…
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web search NEUTRAL — Deadly Attack Outside U.K. Synagogue on Yom Kippur Is Declared Terrorism. The police identified the attacker as Jihad al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent. He was shot dead, the police s…
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/world/europe/terrorist-at…
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web search NEUTRAL — UK counter-terror police name Manchester synagogue attack suspect. From CNN's James Frater and Billy Stockwell.Two people died and a man who was shot dead by police in a suspected terror attack at the…
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/manchester-uk-synagogue-…
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“Shavuot is celebrated as a harvest festival concluding the seven-week “omer” countdown that started on Passover.”
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Three independent sources (Wikipedia, Chabad.org, and My Jewish Learning) confirm that Shavuot is a harvest festival occurring seven weeks after Passover, concluding the Omer count.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shavuot, the Feast of “Weeks,” is celebrated seven weeks after Pesach (Passover). Since the counting of this period (sefirat ha-omer) begins on the second evening of Pesach, Shavuot takes place exactl…
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/shavuot-101/
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web search NEUTRAL — This counting of days and weeks is understood to express anticipation and desire for the giving of the Torah. On Passover, the people of Israel were freed from their enslavement to Pharaoh; on Shavuot…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
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web search NEUTRAL — Coming after the seven-week Omer count, it is celebrated on the sixth and seventh days of the Hebrew month of Sivan, which usually falls in late May or early June on the Gregorian calendar. Read: When…
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/609663/jewish…
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“the celebration of receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, where the Israelites on their Exodus from Egypt became the Jewish people more than 3,000 years ago.”
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Wikipedia and other reference sources confirm the biblical/traditional account of the Israelites receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai during the Exodus from Egypt.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mount Sinai Jewish Center is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue that practices in the Ashkenazi rite, located in the Washington Heights and Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhatta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai_Jewish_Center
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mount Sinai Memorial Park comprises two Jewish cemeteries in the Los Angeles area: Mount Sinai Hollywood Hills, established in 1953, and Mount Sinai Simi Valley, opened in 1997. Both cemeteries are ad…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sinai_Memorial_Park
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Torah (; Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה, romanized: tōrā, lit. "instruction", "teaching", or "law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, L…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
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“a particularly heinous attack that took place 85 years ago, on Shavuot in June 1941. In the “Farhud”... the Jewish community in Iraq was attacked by its Muslim neighbors, incited by the former grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Hussein”
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Wikipedia and the Museum of the Jewish People confirm the Farhud occurred in June 1941 (coinciding with Shavuot) in Iraq and that Haj Amin al-Husseini was involved in inciting the violence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jewish paper cutting is a traditional form of Jewish folk art made by cutting figures and sentences in paper or parchment. It is connected with various customs and ceremonies, and associated with hol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_paper_cutting
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים‎, ISO 259-2: Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation: [jehuˈdim]), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of ancient Israel and Ju…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shavuot (, from Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת, romanized: Šāvūʿōṯ, lit. 'Weeks'), or Shvues (, in some Ashkenazi usage), is a Jewish holiday, one of the biblically ordained Three Pilgrimage Festivals. It occurs …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
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“At least 180 Jews were murdered in the two days of rioting concentrated in Baghdad, and hundreds of Jewish-owned homes and shops were destroyed.”
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Multiple sources (Wikipedia, The Jewish Chronicle, and a report on Arab world pogroms) confirm that at least 180 Jews were murdered and hundreds of homes/businesses were destroyed during the Farhud in Baghdad.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Farhud (Arabic: الفرهود, romanized: al-Farhūd) was a pogrom carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941 (coinciding with the Jewish holiday of Shavuot), immediatel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Approximately 900,000 Jews migrated, fled, or were expelled from Muslim-majority countries throughout Africa and Asia in the 20th century, primarily as a consequence of the establishment of the State …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jew…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
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“Shlomo Mansour... was among the oldest victims of October 7, 2023, when he was murdered by Hamas terrorists at the age of 85 and his body abducted to Gaza.”
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The search results for 'Shlomo' only provide general information about the name and do not mention a specific person named Shlomo Mansour, his age, or his fate on October 7, 2023.
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web search NEUTRAL — Shlomo or Szlomo is the English form of שְׁלֹמֹה, the Hebrew name of the Israelite King Solomon. It is a popular name among Jews, especially in Israel.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2020 · The meaning, origin and history of the given name Shlomo
https://www.behindthename.com/name/shlomo
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 9, 2025 · Exploring Shlomo name meaning and its peaceable Hebrew roots, uncover global variants, pronunciation tips, and 2025 popularity insights.
https://www.momjunction.com/baby-names/shlomo/
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“On June 7, 1981... Then-prime minister Menachem Begin... ordered a bold preemptive strike to knock out the nascent nuclear plant in Iraq”
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No evidence was provided in the search results for the specific date or action regarding Menachem Begin and the Iraqi nuclear plant strike.
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“The raid, variously known as Operation Tammuz, Operation Opera, and Operation Osirak”
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“Israel supplied the United Arab Emirates with Iron Dome anti-missile systems”
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“Iranian drones this week struck a UAE nuclear power plant”
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“In previous flotillas intercepted by the Israel Navy... tellingly large numbers of condoms were found.”
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“Several mayors across the UK were elected last week on a platform that had more to do with Gaza than maintaining municipal services”
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“New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani... marked “Nakba Day,” the “catastrophe” of Israel’s independence, in a social media post”
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“The post included a video interview with “Nakba survivor” Inea Bushnaq that was later debunked... who revealed that Bushnaq’s family was originally from Bosnia”
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“More than 850,000 Jews fled or were expelled from Arab and Muslim lands in 1948, with Israel’s establishment, outnumbering the approximately 700,000 “Palestinian refugees” created at the same time”
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“a “Visit Palestine” poster seen in the background was designed by Jewish artist Franz Kraus to encourage travel and immigration to pre-state Israel”
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“the indictment last week in Manhattan of Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Sa’adi, a senior member of the Iraqi Kataib Hezbollah terrorist organization”
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“Al-Sa’adi was reportedly arrested by US authorities following his detention in Turkey.”
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“HAYI claimed responsibility for the stabbing attack on two Jewish men in London’s Golders Green neighborhood last month.”
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“Knocking out the nuclear facilities of Iraq in 1981, Syria in 2007”
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