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After the Hamas terror army’s Oct. 7 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, why are there no marches of support from non-Jewish communities?

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.
Political cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., made aliyah to Israel in 1971 and began drawing “Dry Bones” in January 1973. The internationally syndicated, award-winning cartoons ran in The Jerusalem Post for 50 years. They were reprinted in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME and other mainstream media publications. The “Dry Bones” story has been covered by CBS, CNN and Forbes, among other outlets. He was a member of America’s National Cartoonists Society and the Israeli Cartoonists Society. Kirschen died at 87 on April 14, 2025.

Jews in America and the rest of the Western world regularly march in support of the victims of injustice.

After the Hamas terror army’s Oct. 7 slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, why are there no such marches of support by non-Jewish communities?

Instead, first have seen the “River to the Sea” masses express their backing for our destruction, as well as the tearing down of posters highlighting the plight of some 240 Israelis being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

Are we on our own?

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