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Breitbart's Joel Pollak Shares Poignant Hanukkah Message of Sadness but Also of Hope (Watch)

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As Hanukkah comes to a close today, I can't help but think that this has to be the most horrific Hanukkah that many Jewish people in America and around the world have experienced in generations, perhaps since World War II and its aftermath. 

Not only did they have to suffer through the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7, but since then they have had to endure the most vile antisemitism they could imagine. All over the world, people tearing down posters of their loved ones being held hostage, the media repeating propaganda from Hamas terrorists with no questions asked, college campuses becoming hotbeds of antisemitic hate, and establishment leaders (yes, I mean you, Claudine Gay) refusing to condemn that hate. 

Yesterday, near the end of Hanukkah, Breitbart's Joel Pollack -- a visibly upset and emotional Joel Pollak -- recorded a video to share his thoughts on all of this horror.

'We're suffering because we feel isolated, because we feel ignored, and we feel marginalized, I think, or disregarded.'

Wow. There is no worse feeling than feeling alone. Stephen King once wrote, in his younger days: 

'Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.'

- Salem's Lot

Pollak, a Harvard alumnus, describes the pain of seeing the Harvard Alumni Association defending the indefensible Claudine Gay, how they don't understand the hatred, how calls for a ceasefire are only aimed at Israel, not Hamas, and understandably how, when Israel is threatened, he feels threatened. He recalls back to the beginning of the United States when George Washington himself personally promised Jews that they would be safe in this country, and how religious liberty was a God-given right. 

Pollack concludes with an emotional message of hope. Despite all of the bad news this Hanukkah season, and not just for Jews, he is assured by the people in America who still believe in our founding principles, and he is grateful for all of them. And it doesn't matter how many are against that. In Pollak's defiant words, 'When you start with the truth, you are small, but by the time you are finished, you can illuminate anything.'

OK, so I am getting a little emotional myself right now, so I am just going to let Twitter take it from here. 

Many more chimed in to offer the most important encouragement:

Pollak most definitely is not alone. Nor is any Jewish person. 

I thank Joel Pollak for this essential message in a dark time. Hanukkah, like Christmas, is a season of hope, and of joy, and of light. No one should have to feel the way Jews have been made to feel during this Hanukkah. So I, a lifelong Catholic, also want to say Happy Hanukkah and, 'Am Yisrael Chai.'

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