Two years on: A changed world

On Tuesday, we marked the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s heinous massacre.

The events of that day will forever be etched in our memory. 1200 people – men, women and children – brutally and sadistically murdered. Rape employed as a weapon of war. 250 taken hostage into the dark tunnels of Gaza, where 48 remain.

But we marked more than just the tragic, awful events of that day. We marked the day our world irreparably changed.

While we tended to our gaping emotional wounds, it seemed like the world conspired to kick us while we were down. Israel stands accused of the very crimes Hamas attempted to commit upon it. Western leaders have lined up to reward the terror group with recognition of Palestinian statehood.

Antisemitism has surged worldwide, resulting in physical attacks such as the firebombing of the Addas Israel Synagogue in Melbourne last December and then just last week, the terror attack at a Manchester shule on Yom Kippur in which two worshippers were killed.