Jews and the Issue of Fighting Back |
I have just finished reading reports of the latest attack upon a Jew in Los Angeles. It occurred in an area of West Los Angeles, which is not far from where I grew up, an area that is historically, heavily Jewish. A 32-year-old man was accosted and attacked by a man driving past in a car. The attacker, seeing that the victim was Jewish, got out of his vehicle and beat the man. Upon leaving, the attacker said, “Free Palestine”.
For years now, with the Palestinian movement spreading its poison so effectively to the US, especially on our campuses, I hear time and time again of Jews being attacked both in North America and Europe, largely due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They were attacked not because they bore a resemblance to Benjamin Netanyahu, but because they were recognizably Jewish. Either they wore a kippah, or they were seen coming from a........