How To Spill Wine: Considering The Deaths Of Our Enemies

(essay)

The late, Ismail Haniya, senior political leader of Hamas, and chief proponent of the October 7 massacre.

There’s a custom during the Passover seder where, at the recitation of the Ten Plagues, ten drops of wine are spilled from each participant’s cup. As a child, I learned that this custom taught us not to rejoice over the deaths of our enemies. As an …