‘Enormous global sympathy?’ Is this a joke? This is either a very malicious lie or the earnest opinion of someone illustrating how woefully out of touch he is. In either case, and I speak as a former admirer, Nicholas has proven that his opinions should be broached with a heavy amount of skepticism. Let me speak to my own country, Ireland: 1. On October 9th, 2023 there was a march on the Israeli embassy in ‘solidarity with Palestine’. This march included members of Irish parliament, from the People Before Profit party specifically. 2. On the 9th of October, 2023 Trinity College Student’s Union (TCDSU) sent a college-wide email in conjunction with Trinity’s BDS campaign stating: ‘Last week Hamas launched a military operation in response to atrocities that Palestinians have faced over decades’, and that ‘TCDSU stands in solidarity with Palestine, and [implores] you all to do the same’. 3. On the morning of October 7th, while the massacre was still ongoing, a lecturer at Trinity (indeed, an esteemed fellow) posted on on X: ‘Solidarity and strength with those who demand to be free’ accompanied by an image of a Palestinian militant holding up a Palestinian flag with a text underneath saying ‘Free Palestine’. This post is still up. To my knowledge, he has faced no repercussions for this. By contrast, I was immediately dragged into a meeting with the Junior Dean when I posted about Jewish student’s horror that this lecturer celebrated the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. I was forced to remove my post and was given a condescending talking to on online conduct. The lecturer in question continues to be heavily platformed and lauded in his School: the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies. Yes, you read that correctly. 4. The president of the Postgraduate Workers Organisation of Ireland also celebrated October 7th on X. He wrote: ‘Decolonisation should be celebrated and supported. Liberation from occupation and torturous imprisonment should be embraced by everyone who values justice. Resistance grows out of barbarous oppression, it is beautiful.’ This man was subsequently elected as a local councillor. Yes, *after* he publicly celebrated a massacre he was elected councillor in Ireland. 5. On Instagram, people I’ve known all my life were sharing posts on their stories that served to *at best* justify the massacre. Two of my closest friends didn’t think to message asking if my loved ones were safe, even though they had met and spent the evening with my Israeli best friend the year before. When I messaged one of them on the 12th of October to say how heartbreaking this was, she didn’t respond. We haven’t spoken since. 6. Irish women’s organisations and so-called feminists were completely silent on the use of rape as a weapon of war against Israeli women. Not a whisper. Despite being silent on this subject, Ireland’s National Women’s Council has been extremely vocal in their public statements against Israel. In a statement on October 5th, 2024 they wrote: ‘As the one-year anniversary of Israel’s war on Gaza approaches, the National Women’s Council (NWC) has called on the government to impose sanctions on Israel, and to push for sanctions at EU and UN level. The organisation, which represents almost 200 women’s groups across Ireland, condemned the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people by the Israeli State at its annual general meeting in June.’ Zero mention of October 7th and the gender-based brutality inflicted on women that day. 7. Posters of Israeli hostages, including children, were viciously ripped down and defaced in my hometown. I could go on and on. Nicholas, forgive me: you are either a malicious liar or pitifully ignorant. Perhaps both. There was precious little sympathy for Israel after October 7th: not for the raped Israeli women, nor the butchered Israeli children. Indeed, the demonic reaction to that day has changed my view on the world forever.