The French intellectual Raymond Aron fled to London during the Second World War. When he was asked whether he knew what was happening at that time in the East, he answered: ‘I knew, but I didn’t believe it, and because I didn’t believe it, I didn’t know.’
On the 7th October it felt like synapses in my brain between knowing and believing were awakened.
Being able to watch, on social media, the invasion of people’s homes, the murder, the violence was like awakening into a nightmare.