TEL AVIV, Israel — Ahuva Maisel, the mother of 21-year-old Adi Maisel, told Breitbart News on Monday that protesters who support the Palestinian cause after the mass murder of Israelis were a “disgrace to humankind.”
Ahuva Maisel spoke to Breitbart News at a center that has been established in Tel Aviv to help the families of Israeli hostages and people missing since the attack.
She has been coming back to the center, despite knowing her daughter’s fate, as she wrestles with her emotions.
Adi Maisel was a veteran of Israel’s navy and an accomplished javelin thrower. Her mother described her as a “love girl, a beautiful, beautiful girl, vey responsible, 21 years old, and she did so many things, and she affected so many circles.
“She was very special, she had a great heart, she was beautiful inside and out. Really, a perfect girl since the moment she was born.”
Adi Maisel (Courtesy Maisel family)
She was murdered at the Supernova music festival as she tried to flee Palestinian Hamas terrorists, who killed 260 people there and over 1,400 overall in a murderous Oct. 7 spree.
Her mother described a sense of relief in learning that her daughter had died rather than being taken hostage by Hamas, though she was still deeply anguished that she did not know exactly how her daughter had been killed.
She last spoke to Adi at 7:42 a.m. on Oct. 7, when the young woman called her mother to say that she and her best friend were driving away from the attack, trying to find the main road.
That was the last she heard from Adi, and waited days to learn that her daughter had been murdered.
Footage reviewed by this reporter shows Hamas terrorists murdering drivers in their cars, at the music festival and on the roads of Israeli communities near Gaza.
She said the loss of he daughter, and the terror attack, had shattered her faith in humanity.
“Hitler was, you know, 80 years ago? Who are we, if after 80 years we know so many things about the wold, the universe, and our genes, and everything … I couldn’t imagine myself wishing for my daughter to die.
“When they came to tell me, it’s like I had 20 tons on my heart — when they told me that they identified her, it’s like ten tons went off me.”
Ahuva was incredulous that pro-Palestinian protesters had defended, and even celebrated, the Hamas attack.
“And people accept this, and excuse it, and justify it? I cannot not believe this.”
She said of pro-Palestinian protesters: “I would say that they are a disgrace to humankind. How do you see our future? Tell me. Tell me, how do you see our future?”
Ahuva Maisel said she once believed in peace, but now believed that the world had to confront the threat of radical Islam worldwide.
“If you don’t kill this idea, and you condemn it, and make all the world feel like this is the cancer of our humanity, that every person will condemn … We have to tell the world what exactly went on here … We must stop it here.”
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
