So I end where I began. The hate that begins with Jews never ends with Jews. Antisemitism is only secondarily about Jews. Primarily it is about the failure of groups to accept responsibility for their own failures, and to build their own future by their own endeavours. No society that has fostered antisemitism has ever sustained liberty or human rights or religious freedom. Every society driven by hate begins by seeking to destroy its enemies, but ends by destroying itself.
-Rabbi Johnathan Sacks
I spent a year in Israel, wanting to fulfill my progressive fantasy of peaceful co-existence with the Arab community. An assault on me while I worked in a peace collaborative changed my mind. A swastika painted on the wall of my home then on the door of my husband's office at the House of Lords eliminated whatever liberal views I once had.
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