I didn’t want to watch Red Alert, Paramount’s dramatization of the October 7 Hamas invasion. I was here when it happened. I’ve seen the footage—almost all of it—through my work. I’ve spoken to survivors. I’ve watched the testimonies. These aren’t scenes you want to revisit in your living room. But I’m glad I watched the series. Not because I learned something new, but because it reminded me that somewhere, someone is still trying to tell the truth.
That matters—because these days, truth is in short supply. Amid a tidal wave of Israel hatred and revisionist takes that border on outright denial of October 7, Red Alert cuts through the noise. It doesn’t show everything—nothing could—but it captures enough. Enough to remind viewers that this wasn’t a skirmish between soldiers or a tragic case of miscalculation. It was a massacre of civilians, a campaign of mass rape, arson, kidnapping, and beheadings. And the show does something few dare to: it puts names, faces, and relationships to the victims.
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