I think there is a lot of antisemitism around, I do worry for our beleaguered Jewish community, their numbers are small, diminishing in fact, I hate this pile on in a history repeating itself kind of way, possibly my empathy is personal, my maternal grandfather was half Jewish and the persecution and demonisation, they as a people have had to endure down the centuries has been, unparalleled, unremitting and so unjustified and for the most spurious of reasons. In my late teens, I worked for a Jewish firm, I learnt a lot from them in a positive way, but I would say as far as Israel is concerned there was a definite tunnel vision there, but they were of the generation who lost family to the Holocaust. I imagine the horror of those cruelties would be so hard wired it would and did and for ever more will shape their consciousness. I'll never forget visiting Israel and at a beach side cafe on the next table where a group of older people with their tattoos visible such a testament to the sheer inhumanity of what happened and Israel well for those people it was a sanctuary.
One of my sons is so anti Netenyahu and the IDF he fully subscribes to they, the Israelis, are committing genocide I do understand his point of view when I'm talking to him I sometimes keep reminding him what initiated it all, at times I almost feel that's been airbrushed away.
Going back to the Sudanese and how we appear as a society to be so partisan in where we direct our anger and condemnation. I do believe there is subliminal rationale in the expectation to view certain demographics in a positive light, there is definitely "lets not talk about the complicity in what they inflict on their own and abhorrent cultural practices" and yes they do go unnoticed in comparison to say the undoubted awfulness of Gaza, Sudan well it's just not in the news much any more, if at all.
