from Religion Media Centre
The columnist Melanie Phillips has issued advice to British Jews on how to cope with increasing levels of antisemitism. In an article in The Times, she cites a survey by the Union of Jewish Students suggesting one in five university students would be reluctant to share accommodation with a Jew. Forty per cent have witnessed Jewish students being harassed, and almost half have heard chants or slogans glorifying Hamas or Hezbollah.
She also refers to an article in The Guardian where a writer said the opening of a Gail’s bakery 20 metres from a Palestinian cafe in north London was “an act of heavy-handed high-street aggression”, because Gail’s parent company had links to Israel.
Faced with a normalisation of hatred against Jews, she has produced a book suggesting likely responses, and suggests park your anger and distress, don’t argue on your opponent’s ground, offer facts in return and use humour.
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