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The saddest shiva call

We were practically moved to tears when we learned that a Jewish family in Iran paid a condolence call on the family of Qasem Soleimani, expressing their grief at the loss of this murderous terrorist.

There are two possibilities: The family had to do it. Just as the family of an Iranian protester recently killed by Iran’s security forces had to lie and say that its son was killed by a protester to get the right to bury him, this Jewish family had to lie and pretend that it was saddened by the death of a mass murderer to keep the government from imprisoning or killing it.

Either that, or the Jewish family was genuinely grieved over Soleimani’s death.

We do not know which is worse. We do know that if ever there were a symbol of the abasement of freedom in a totalitarian society, this condolence call was it. One can only cry, knowing that Jews mourned, or had to put on a show of mourning, the likes of Soleimani.

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