Miriam Shaviv writes in the JC about the rise in antisemitism

I had never expected to see in my lifetime - indeed, within the lifetime of some who still remember the Nazi Holocaust - that tolerance for Anti-Semitism could possibly become as widespread as it appears to be now.

There is an article in the Jewish Chronicle by Miriam Shaviv, called

The future is not looking good for us,

which I think anyone who wants to live in a non-racist society would do well to read.

She compares the gradual rise in public acceptance of Anti-Semitism to the old fable of the boiled frog -

Put a frog in a pot of hot water and it jumps right out, instinctively aware of the danger to its life.

But place the frog in a pot of cold water and bring it to the boil slowly, and the frog will swim around, gradually adjusting his body temperature and acclimatising to the rising heat.

By the time it realises that it is about to die, it is too late. The frog has expended all its energy and can no longer jump out of the pot.

She argues that the present threat of hostility to Jewish people

"is heating up gradually, day by day, week by week, so we adjust to every new horror and live with 'the new normal'. And therein lies the danger. We’re already half-cooked.

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