Natalie Sanandaji was at an Israeli music festival when Hamas attacked. She had to run for her life across open fields. Sanandaji says a video of Hamas gunmen firing on porta potties was particularly haunting. "The terrorists coming to those exact bathrooms, where I was moments before, it made me realize how close I was to death," she says. Although Sanandaji is back home in New York, she believes she would be safer in Israel because of growing antisemitism in the U.S.
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