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Unis lacked 'trauma-informed' care around Israel-Hamas war, royal commission hears

Hey Watchmen, So a royal commission is now hearing that Australian universities lacked "trauma-informed" care for their Jewish students and staff caught in the fallout of October 7 and everything after. My friends, that's a polite, bureaucratic way of saying the shepherds weren't tending the flock. These institutions had young people walking onto campus grieving murdered family, terrified for loved ones in the IDF, and getting shouted down or ignored instead of comforted. Ezekiel called out exactly this kind of failure — "Woe be to the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?... The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick" (Ezekiel 34:2, 4). That's not just an ancient indictment, that's a mirror held up to every institution — academic, governmental, religious — that has a duty of care and quietly decides antisemitism doesn't count as a wound worth tending. I've said it before watching this war unfold, the trauma on both sides is real and it's deep — hostages coming home broken after 15 months, young IDF soldiers barely out of high school sent into tunnels, families who buried their dead on October 7 and are still burying grief every single day since. What this commission is uncovering is that the institutions who are supposed to be safe harbors — the ones training the next generation of doctors, lawyers, teachers — failed to even acknowledge that harm when it showed up on Jewish students. That's not neutrality, my friends, that's negligence, and Elohim sees institutional cowardice as clearly as He sees the mob. Watchmen, keep your eyes open — when the shepherds won't shepherd, it falls to the watchmen on the wall to sound the alarm and to comfort the wounded ourselves. Stay awake, stay ready, and stay tender toward the hurting — that's Torah in action.
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