Time for Me to Leave

Commentary has published a piece by Nidra Poller titled “Betrayed by Europe: An Expatriate’s Lament." Poller’s piece explores her return to Europe, more specifically France in 1972, and then moves into why she feels she now must leave, again. I write, again, because her family was pushed out of Europe in the 1930’s by, yes, anti-semitism fueled by the hatred of the Nazis.  It’s the same anti-semitism, now, but the fuel is now Islamic hatred.  From Poller’s piece.

"The sea change began on September 28, 2000, when the domestic repercussions of Arafat’s prefabricated “al-Aqsa” intifada in Jerusalem struck me in a dizzying instant of recognition. I was hardly alone. Stunned and dazed, the formerly integrated, assimilated, liberated, progressive, and (in some cases) indifferent Jews of France found themselves—ourselves—thrust out of the body politic and herded into a virtual ghetto. In the years since then, things have only gotten worse, much worse."

Via J Bowen at No Watermelons Allowed.

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