Ive never had much trouble being Jewish. Ive only been called big-nose Yiddy for sitting on the train minding my own business, and bloody Jew for winning once too often at squash, but apart from that its been a breeze. My mother wasnt keen on me blabbing about it publicly, just in case someone heard and threw a brick through our window, but fair enough – she lived through the war and never quite got over it. But Hitlers gone now, and everythings different, isnt it? Suddenly, Im not so sure. Things seem to be getting a bit creepy again. I noticed, when voting last week, a number of strange new parties had sprung up on the right: the English Democrats, who would seek to work with Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders; the Harmony Party – Zero Immigration; the Christian Peoples Alliance – God is angry over gay marriage; and old BNP and Ukip. Not too far away, Golden Dawn and the Jobbiks are blooming. Over in Brussels, four people have been shot dead in the Jewish Museum, and, as Gary Younge so clearly pointed out in this paper, racism in the US isnt just the odd old white man saying the n-word out loud, or Clarkson muttering it over here.
Posted on: Mon, 26 May 2014 14:43:08 +0000
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