Local pro-Hamas organizations to demonstrate on October 5, 2024

I just saw an announcement that our local pro-Hamas groups are having a demonstration on Saturday, October 5. Sponsors include Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine, and a newly-founded affiliate, Jews for Mutual Liberation, Ithaca DSA, and Party for Socialism and Liberation - Finger Lakes. 

Several Cornell organizations are also co-sponsors - JVP Cornell, Cornell SJP, Cornell Coalition for Mutual Liberation. CML at Cornell was the main organizer of the protests and encampments last year and continuing this year. 

Does the "One Year of Resistance" include the orgy of murder, rape, torture, and hostage-taking on October 7?

The "Jews for Mutual Liberation" will be sharing a tashlich ritual - I wonder if it will be like the one that the Detroit JVP group is doing?

Remembering and Mourning October 7

I'm feeling really nervous about what will happen on October 7 this fall. I don't think I'm worried that there will be another Hamas attack on that day (I hope I'm right about that!), but about what the reactions will be outside of Israel, in the US and other countries.

Will there be horrible rallies by groups like Within Our Lifetime celebrating the attack? Will the pro-Palestine groups at my college decide to hold rallies on that day to hijack the mourning that Jews and Israelis will feel on that day?

October 7 is on a Monday this year, and I have to teach that day, which I'm apprehensive about.

My mother died on October 21, 1981 (which also happened to be Simchat Torah, 23 Tishrei). I observe her yahrzeit on the Hebrew date, and in 1982, starting in August, I began to feel really depressed again because I was remembering how she had become more and more sick. She went to the hospital and then came back home for hospice.

I don't have the same anticipatory mourning for her that starts in August any longer, but I can already start to feel apprehensive of how I'll feel on October 7.