It is sad when one has to give up on the country one grew up in.
And not because he/ she left this country - we all sometimes do for various reasons, and than sometimes come back, sometimes visit and sometimes just keep in nice memories. Simply because we feel unaccepted in it. We feel we do not belong there any more (though we used to). That was (and is) the fate of many refugees from countries that underwent radical changes.
It is also sometimes the effect of some political global or regional changes (like the fate of Jewish refugees from Arab countries after 1948).
Yet we usually presume that apart from individual choices these feelings and struggles omit developed, Western countries. After all they are supposed to be democratic, based on civil rights, usually with many minorities (ethnic, religious and so on) so why would anybody felt unwelcome, not belonging, excluded?
Well, there is a group of people feeling more and more out of place in Western European countries. They are afraid to be recognized, they feel not belonging because of the constant critics of their religion and ethnicity, they feel more and more vulnerable with the most painful and so recent moment of their history being pushed out of schools, with their children attending schools slowly reminiscent of strongholds, with their often taking care not to be recognized, with their feeling of being voiceless as nobody is willing to hear their story.
They are Jewish people.
And the above linked history from Sweden shows how it happens...
Here is a slightly different one from American campus. And it is saddening. If we can't protect small and peaceful minority against accusations, aggression and lack of belonging what is our system worth, is it already an illusion of society based on equal rights of all?
This is a blog about Israel, her history, culture, touristic as seen by outsider but fully in love with this amazing, beautiful country. It is also partly about the dialogue between Judaism and Christianity and - as this can't be avoided - a little bit about politics, but no more than is necessary
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“When Israel, the only country in the world whose very existence is under attack, is consistently and conspicuously singled out for condemnation, I believe we are morally obligated to take a stand.” by Canada's PM Harper
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