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Introduction

In an article, “Three Years After Oct. 7, Are There Any Words Left?” published by Sojourners magazine on October 7, 2026, Josiah R. Daniels omits:

• October 7, 2023 was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
• Evidence complicating charges of genocide against Israel.
• The theological and genocidal nature of the Hamas charter.
• Sliman Mansour’s involvement in violence during the First Intifada.
• Palestinian violence against Israelis before and after October 7, 2023.
• Survey data reportedly indicating most Gaza residents’ interest in relocating.
• Kairos Palestine I’s failure to recognize the Jewish nation and its link to the land of Israel.

Omitting October 7, 2023 was the Deadliest Day for Jews Since the Holocaust

The article features a description of October 7, 2023 as “the most violent day in their [Israelis’] history,” but neglects to mention that this day was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. The failure to mention this fact represents a glaring omission in an article featuring multiple attestations of the word “genocide” and the application of the term “catastrophe” (an English translation of the Hebrew term, Shoah, used to refer to the Holocaust) to “the situation in Israel/Palestine.” While the plight of Palestinians deserves attention, using the anniversary of the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust to focus mostly on Palestinians while excoriating the world’s only Jewish State is questionable.

Omitting Evidence Complicating Charges of Genocide Against Israel

The article features multiple individuals who describe what Israel has done in the Gaza Strip following October 7, 2023 as “genocide.” However, no evidence is provided in the article to justify this charge while evidence complicating the article’s genocidal narrative is completely ignored. For example, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics data indicate the Palestinian population of Gaza has increased from 2,226,544 in 2023 to 2,411,790 in 2026. In addition, the Israeli military has routinely issued evacuation notices to residents of Gaza, alerted them to imminent military activities, enabled the flow of millions of tons of humanitarian assistance into the territory, and deployed multiple field hospitals to treat wounded individuals. Over 500 scholars have publicly rejected accusations that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. The article also declines to note how Israel’s military has sought to target terrorists and spare civilians from harm, while Hamas has strategically used civilians as human shields, which constitutes a war crime.

Omitting the Theological and Genocidal Nature of the Hamas Charter

While the accusation that Israel has committed genocide goes uncontested in the article, the term “genocide” is never used in the article to describe Hamas actions even though the Hamas charter operationalizes a messianic vision whose realization hinges on Muslims exterminating Jews. In explaining how an apocalyptic hadith is employed in the Hamas charter, the German political scientist and historian Matthias Küntzel has noted: “According to antisemitism expert Yehoshafat Harkabi, this is a call for an ‘eschatological ‘final solution.’’ The resurrection and salvation of the Muslims is made dependent on a prior massacre of Jews” (Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East: The 1948 Arab War against Israel and the Aftershocks of World War II, p. 40).

Omitting Sliman Mansour’s Involvement in Violence During the First Intifada

Although the article features multiple people who call for accountability from Israel and grapple with Jewish theological approaches to the conflict, no comparable call for accountability from any Palestinian is mentioned while Hamas’ theological justification of genocidal violence against Jews is not addressed. In fact, the article seemingly justifies Palestinian violence against Israelis when Daniels states: “I honestly can’t blame them [Palestinians] [for losing faith in nonviolent resistance].” In this regard, the article approvingly references Sliman Mansour, whose involvement in violence (“throwing stones”) during the First Intifada is neither disclosed to readers nor condemned.

Omitting Palestinian Violence Against Israelis Before and After October 7, 2023

In the article, Rev. Munther Isaac claims Palestinians, including Christians, have repeatedly pursued forms of nonviolent resistance. This claim excludes not only Palestinian Christians who have supported violence against Israel, like the Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna, but also Palestinians who have carried out violent attacks against Israelis during the First Intifada and Second Intifada. Similarly, the article mentions “settler violence” in discussing the West Bank, but fails to mention how Palestinians have also committed violence against Israelis in the territory. By failing to mention Palestinian violence against Israelis in the West Bank, the article misleads readers by suggesting that Israelis are the sole aggressors and Palestinians are the sole victims in the West Bank.

Omitting Survey Data Reportedly Indicating Most Gaza Residents’ Interest in Relocating

Isaac associates Palestinian “resistance” against Israel with Palestinians “remaining on our land” and “staying rooted [when others seek to uproot us].” Earlier in the article, Israeli politicians are described as “openly imagining a world where Palestinians are no longer in Palestine.” The impression created by these descriptions is that of Palestinians who wish to remain on their land defying Israeli politicians who wish they would leave. However, this impression omits the fact that a Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) survey reportedly found that 80% of residents of Gaza were “interested in receiving information about mechanisms for relocating to a third country through the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings.” These survey results suggest Palestinians also imagine a world where they are no longer in the land.

Omitting Kairos Palestine I’s Failure to Recognize the Jewish Nation and its Link to the Land of Israel

While Isaac and Lamma Mansour approvingly reference Kairos Palestine I in discussing the importance of “speak[ing] truthfully” and “tell[ing] the truth,” the article neglects to mention that Kairos Palestine I does not recognize the truth of the existence of a Jewish nation or the Jewish nation’s connection to the land of Israel. Pepperdine University Middle East historian Scott Abramson has underscored the uniqueness of Jews who are one of the few peoples to have survived from antiquity:

Jews are not only one of antiquity’s few surviving peoples, they are the only one whose self-understanding, national consciousness, language, and culture show multi-millennial continuities. To deny that the Jews are a people is as impudent and irrational as claiming that the Democratic Party (one of the first modern political parties and the oldest continuously active one) is not a political party or that Britain’s Royal Society (one of the first learned scientific societies and the oldest continuously active one) is not a learned society.

Thus, while the article features individuals who proclaim the importance of truth-telling and value a document, Kairos Palestine I, purportedly emphasizing this principle, the article does not mention that Kairos Palestine I, in fact, fails to recognize important truths about the Jewish nation.

Conclusion

As the above analysis has shown, Daniels omits from his article that October 7, 2023 was the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, evidence complicating accusations of genocide leveled against the Jewish State, the theological and genocidal character of the Hamas charter, Sliman Mansour’s engagement in violence during the First Intifada, Palestinian violence targeting Israelis preceding and following October 7, 2023, survey data reportedly showing most Gaza residents’ interest in relocating out of Gaza, and Kairos Palestine I’s failure to acknowledge the Jewish nation and its connection to the land of Israel. Hopefully, future articles published by Sojourners will include key facts that would ensure greater accuracy and balance when it comes to the magazine’s coverage of Israel and Gaza.