I aspire to your ability to react to those kind of posts with a chuckle rather than an aneurysm.
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Should there be a single, secular, multi-ethnic state in Israel/Palestine, with equal rights for all? -
Dynamite stuff, Hugo Rifkind.Dynamite stuff, Hugo Rifkind. Not hysterical, not 'weaponising', not fighting proxy battles. Damning of all who deserve it.
"It’s at this point in a column, I know, that I should set out my stall. Make a declaration about my Zionism, my feelings about the Netanyahu government, my condemnation of Hamas, my despair about the slaughter of the inhabitants of Gaza, my preferred technicalities of some theoretical solution for peace in the Middle East. I’ve been asked about all of that quite a lot over the last year though, and I think I’ve perfected my response.
Ready? It is “fuck off”.
It doesn’t matter what I think. Even I don’t much care what I think. I can’t solve this. Why must I pretend I can?
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It has become impossible, over this past year, to be irrelevantly Jewish. Impossible not to feel it, and be seen as it, by friends and foes, whatever you do, whatever you say, whatever the circumstances, whatever you’d otherwise prefer."
OPINION – HUGO RIFKIND: We expected sympathy to vanish but not this constant hate - Jewish News
It has become impossible, over this past year, to be irrelevantly Jewish. Impossible not to feel it, and be seen as it, by friends and foes, whatever you do, writes Hugo Rifkind
Jewish News (www.jewishnews.co.uk)