In August 2001, I turned 21 and my parents gave me a Star of David necklace. Then a month later, the world changed and my mother, with remarkable foresight, began her campaign to rescind the gift, begging me to take it off because she was frightened it would make me a target in the wake of mounting evidence that fanatical Islamism was tightening its grip on the country. My argument was always the same - when I am no longer safe being identifiably Jewish on the tube, I don't want to live in England ...
There has been a sea change in Europe and it's terrifying.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Poor Old England II
A young secular Jew in England, Francesca Segal, writes,
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