In December 1938, William Cooper, a Yorta Yorta man, on hearing the news of Kristallnacht wrote: “We protest wholeheartedly … the cruel persecution of the Jewish people. Our people have suffered much cruelty, exploitation and misunderstanding as a minority at the hands of another people … the Nazi government has a consulate here on our land. Let us go there and make our protest known.” And he did. It is hard to imagine any Jewish person in the world not being profoundly affected as the horrors of Saturday, October 7, unfolded. It would not only have surfaced memories linked to...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
