Claire Helene Bevan’s and others’ silence over the wholesale slaughter of infants and desecration of Israeli bodies on Oct. 7 was and is deafening. I sincerely hope others saw her impassioned plea (Nov. 3, knox.villagesoup.com) for “human rights” for what it really was: the thinly veiled propagation of hate. Reducing people's legitimate concerns about what a sovereign state does to hatred of a people is facile.