I Once Thought British Jews Were Special. Not Anymore.
The protests in London have been an opportunity for classic early-Christian Jew hate, brought forward in time. (Photo by James Wendlinger/Getty Images)
The weeks since October 7 have forever changed my relationship with my country.
I am a British Jew, which means that until October 7, I considered myself one of the luckiest Jews ever born. We are the only intact community in Europe: the only one without a roll of names at Yad Vashem.
Elsewhere in Europe you will walk through empty or half-empty Jewish quarters—in Venice, Vienna, and the endless graveyard that is Poland—but not her…
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