Whether momentary, temporary, or permanent, antisemitism is mental illness. When it translates into violent acts against Jews and worse, their murder, it’s an inexcusable crime, an unforgivable one.
The biggest losers are the perpetrators themselves, who invariably inflict their rages on members of their own families – spouses, siblings, and children – and they are hated, whether openly or secretly by them. The perpetrators of this terror, which harms all around them, die a lonely death.
Just as bigotry in all its form is hateful, the words of my late father come to mind: not to discriminate against someone for something he cannot account for by birth, whether race, religion, or sex. I would add disability to the mix.
Like any anger, any rage, the inconvenience of it is forgetfulness, such as in this latest upsurge in the Gazan-Israeli conflict about who began the violence. This is a time to heal, to return to sanity.
