Short thread on despair:
As @DavidHirsh has just said, we (Jews & our real allies) have been publishing,speaking and posting on the anti Jewish racism of Corbyn and the hard Left for years.
We have been ignored, silenced, vilified, abused and marginalized.
As @DavidHirsh has just said, we (Jews & our real allies) have been publishing,speaking and posting on the anti Jewish racism of Corbyn and the hard Left for years.
We have been ignored, silenced, vilified, abused and marginalized.
When an article is published in the odious Daily Mail, or in a respectable organ like The Times exposing the hate and squalor at the heart of Labour, many seem to think that the Jews are dancing and cheering (we’re often pictured doing that).
But no. There is no elation. No “I told them so and now it’s out there”.
For me and I suspect many others, the over-riding emotion is despair.
Despair that Jewish voices are rarely listened to.
Despair that Jewish concerns are seen as disingenous and malign.
For me and I suspect many others, the over-riding emotion is despair.
Despair that Jewish voices are rarely listened to.
Despair that Jewish concerns are seen as disingenous and malign.
Despair that the evidential bar, the burden of proof for anti Jewish racism in public life is set at a level so that pretty much anything short of donning an SS uniform is explainable.Excusable.
Despair because we hear loud and clear that ultimately we are tolerated not welcome
Despair because we hear loud and clear that ultimately we are tolerated not welcome
Despair because we look at ourselves and shake our heads.
It has dawned on us that we have been guilty of the same complacency, arrogance and vanity for which we have (quietly & privately) castigated previous generations of Jews (most notably the European Jews of the Shoah).
It has dawned on us that we have been guilty of the same complacency, arrogance and vanity for which we have (quietly & privately) castigated previous generations of Jews (most notably the European Jews of the Shoah).
All those Jews whose faith in assimilation was proven to be a vain hope not a realistic method for living.
We are them. Us. Now.
Summer 2018 the words “Jew” & “Zionist” & “Israel” are all over the media (mainstream & social) every day.
The fog has cleared. We know where we are
We are them. Us. Now.
Summer 2018 the words “Jew” & “Zionist” & “Israel” are all over the media (mainstream & social) every day.
The fog has cleared. We know where we are
And we despair.
We despair of our life choices.
We despair of our ideological affiliations.
We despair of our allegiances.
We despair of our futures and those of our children.
We despair in the knowledge that our elderly family members have lived to see this.
We despair of our life choices.
We despair of our ideological affiliations.
We despair of our allegiances.
We despair of our futures and those of our children.
We despair in the knowledge that our elderly family members have lived to see this.
We despair because as British Jews we know that for us and our families, things will never be the same again.
Or more accurately, because in reality things are exactly the same as they have always been.
Or more accurately, because in reality things are exactly the same as they have always been.
