MORNING MUSINGS
Six Jews Were Murdered in Cold Blood Today: I Blame You
Peter Himmelman
September 8, 2025

…These were not soldiers. They were not “legitimate targets.” They were regular human beings, murdered because they were Jews. And yet even in the face of these murders, the same narrative persists, the one that excuses or explains away Jewish blood when it’s spilled. And because of your tacit or overt support for Hamas and their radical Islamist ilk, I also blame you for the deaths of innocent Gazans. I never went to college. That’s not a boast or a lament, just a fact. There are disadvantages to skipping higher education, but one advantage stands out: I wasn’t spoon-fed the ideological gruel that passes for wisdom on so many campuses. Chief among these doctrines is the crude formula: downtrodden = virtuous, successful = damned. That lens has warped the thinking of artists, journalists, intellectuals—and much of the music industry I’ve spent my life in. READ MORE

TIMES OF ISRAEL Six killed, 6 seriously injured in Jerusalem as terrorists open fire on bus, pedestrians Six people were murdered Monday and 12 were wounded, six of them seriously, when a pair of Palestinian terrorists opened fire on vehicles and pedestrians in Jerusalem’s Ramot Junction. The two gunmen, residents of the West Bank, arrived at the junction shortly after 10 a.m. — according to some reports, by car — and opened fire at people waiting at a bus stop as well at a bus that had just stopped there. Police said that a soldier and a number of civilians who were present at the scene fired at the terrorists and killed them.

FUTURE OF JEWISH Joshua Hoffman: Too many people still don’t understand Palestinian culture When a Palestinian drives his car into civilians at a bus stop or when a teenager pulls a knife on Jewish pedestrians, it is rarely described as terrorism. Instead, the world is fed euphemisms: a “lone wolf,” a “response to occupation” — as though stabbing strangers were a form of political dialogue. In such coverage, Jewish victims are reduced to footnotes, their humanity erased by framing that turns killers into “resistance fighters” and the dead into mere consequences. But this pattern is not new. Palestinian terrorism against Jews is part of a long, unbroken continuum of violence that stretches back more than a century.