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A mother and former lecturer at New York’s Yeshiva University who lost her daughter in the Hamas terrorist attacks.
She told Americans to “wake up” to the support of Hamas terrorism at various Universities. The mother says she plans to “shout until they start listening.”
“I turned New York into my home. I made a lot of Americans my friends. Now, I worry for them,” Hannie Ricardo said. (Trending: US Forces Attacked By Suicide Drones)
Hannie Ricardo’s daughter, Oriya, was killed at the Nova music festival attack. The Free Press’s @timsamuels sat down with Hannie who, for the past two decades, has spoken to Holocaust survivors about how life goes on after unspeakable tragedy.
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Ricardo said she was awaiting a visit from her daughter Oriya, “But instead of that, I buried my kid on Sunday.”
“The moment I heard there was an attack, I took my phone and saw her message,” Ricardo recalled.
“Mom, I love you so much,” Oriya had said.
“I tried to call back, but, of course, it was too late. She never answered my calls,” Ricardo said. “I thought she was hiding, and she put [her phone] on silent mode.”
“She was my heart – now it’s dead,” the mother said. “I don’t know how you live without a heart. I know that I speak out of grief, and losing her is beyond words. I don’t have words to describe this.”
Ricardo expressed her fears for Americans who “don’t hesitate to take a side without thinking. It’s very easy, you know. They don’t know what Hamas is like… They equal ISIS and al Qaeda and those who caused American 9/11. They might be even worse than that.”
“In America, you have your freedom of speech. I know it’s a very strong thing in America. I lived there,” Ricardo went on.
The Israeli government is finalizing a list of hostages taken by the terrorist organization Hamas
'Family woke me up, in the middle of the night in New York, telling me that Oriya is missing' Hannie Ricardo, whose daughter has been missing since Saturday's tells i24NEWs pic.twitter.com/LGYmQT3pRx
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) October 9, 2023
“But the interpretation of freedom of speech needs to be discussed, because when freedom of speech becomes freedom of hate, it becomes a whole different thing.” (Trending: Devastating New Poll For Joe Biden)
“My mom was a Holocaust survivor. She passed away a year ago. My father came over before the creation of the state of Israel. . . . Now, I’m a mother of one girl that didn’t survive the Holocaust of 2023,” Ricardo mourned. “I have a lot of history with Holocausts. Now, I have my own personal one.”
“Wake up and start doubting,” she urged anti-Israel Americans.
“Americans, a lot of Americans, especially in the law schools [like] Harvard, Yale, NYU, Columbia, Georgetown . . . they are rewriting history,” she went on. “Anti-Israel is simply the modern antisemitic thing, it’s no different.”
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