They were not soldiers. They were not politicians. They were friends and neighbors walking peacefully through their own community, calling attention to hostages kidnapped from Israel by Hamas on Oct. 7.  They were doing what free people do in a free society—exercising their right to free speech. Karen Sorin Diamond , an 82-year-old mother and grandmother, did not survive. I have spent the past year carrying that and thinking about that. I think many of us have. People ask me often what it feels like to be a member of a community that has been targeted by hate. I tell them how I often think about the survivors of the Boulder firebombing and what they described losing. Not just their physical injuries, horrific in themselves. They also lost the ability to walk freely without threats to their safety. To gather openly, without being targeted for their religion or their views. To be in public and openly Jewish, without anxiety or fear.…