Guilty Bystanders

Mark Olmsted
4 min readOct 31, 2023

The Cycle of Vengeance Must End

Posts and comments from Jewish friends have been lamenting a sense of abandonment by progressives like me who seem to be addressing Palestinian pain and ignoring — according to this narrative — Jewish pain. Speaking for myself, but I suspect others, let me be clear:

I vocally and unambiguously denounce the terrorist raids of October 7th, then and now. I do the same for all…

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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.