October 8th Jew

English Alternative forms en October 8 Jew Etymology en Bret Stephens 1 New York Times writer. Noun en neologism A Jewish person who reconnected with their Jewish identity as a result of the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. en October 7 en w:Bret Stephens For America’s Jews, Every Day Must Be Oct. 8 w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/opinion/us-jewish-israel-sept-11.html 2023-11-07 What can Oct. 8 Jews do? We can stop being embarrassed, equivocal or defensive about Zionism, which is, after all, one of the world’s most successful movements of national liberation. https://web.archive.org/web/20251103135806/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/07/opinion/us-jewish-israel-sept-11.html 3 November 2025 en David Bernstein Jewish Community Relations and the October 8th Jew SAPIR: A Journal of Jewish Conversations SAPIR https://sapirjournal.org/war-in-israel/2023/jewish-community-relations-and-the-october-8th-jew/ 2023-11-19 At a recent conference in Philadelphia, Bret Stephens coined the term, “October 8th Jew.” It was meant especially for left-wing Jews who, observing the glee with which their ideological fellow travelers responded to the previous day’s mass murder of Jews, belatedly realized that progressive politics are no safe haven from antisemitism. https://web.archive.org/web/20260711050320/https://sapirjournal.org/war-in-israel/2023/jewish-community-relations-and-the-october-8th-jew/ 11 July 2026 en Eight Judaism Zionism