How We Remember Matters

The deep moral wound of lies told around October 7, and what it can teach us

I grew up with a deep respect for the work of memory. When I was a child, it started with the usual war monuments and other markers honouring the victims of past conflicts. As I grew, I learned to pay closer attention to how these memorials were used to different ends: sometimes to start a conversation, sometimes to end one.

In Canada, for instance, ther…