Extremities of anger

Marsha Lederman’s October 7 is a book that comes out of the Hamas attacks on Israel and Israel’s military response, but it’s not an account of the war in Gaza or how it is playing out in Israeli politics or in the Arab world. It is about how the conflict is being felt here in Canada, culturally.

Marsha Lederman is a columnist and arts correspondent for The Globe and Mail, and also author of Kiss the Red Stairs, a memoir of the Holocaust and her grandparents. She abhors what Hamas planned and executed on Oct. 7, 2023, unforgivable act of butchery. She also detests the politics of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, writes Christopher Dornan.Photograph courtesy of Penguin Random House Canada

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BY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

December 8, 2025

What does it mean, in a free society, to be “brave enough to speak up”? If nothing else, it implies there are others who are afraid to speak up. What are they afraid of? What hushes them into keeping their opinions to themselves?

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