This month, I uncharacteristically made a New Year’s resolution: I’m no longer talking to anyone about antisemitism. Thus, many scholars and institutions don’t now style it anti-Semitism but “antisemitism” – which, let’s be honest, does nothing at all to alleviate the issue. As Jews Don’t Count author David Baddiel so succinctly put it: “The antisemites don’t ask if you keep …
In 1945, a group named Nakam, comprised of recently liberated Holocaust survivors, decided upon a devastating but, for them, inescapable course of action. She especially harboured disdain for Germans, Polish gentiles, Muslims, even “Aussies” — by which she meant the people who populated the country that took her and my grandfather in as impoverished refugees. “Context” While every Jew is …
