It’s just crazy!” one uncle said to me after I wrote about protesting against antisemitism in British politics. Any attacks on American Jews – the 1994 shooting of four Hasidic teenagers in Brooklyn, the 2009 killing of the security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum – felt random and rare. Hell, this is America, where people are shot every day, and compared with other groups, Jews have been relatively little targeted. All that time American Jews were being shocked by what they saw in Europe, they didn’t realise those same attitudes were fermenting at home. Many of my British friends are becoming increasingly conscious of their Jewish identity, as opposed to their British Jewish one.

Source: The Guardian November 03, 2018 09:02 UTC