By Michael Coren2024-01-17T16:18:00
If you don’t think that antisemitism has become magnified in recent weeks, then you’re definitely not Jewish, says Michael Coren
I was first aware of my Jewish heritage when I was 7 years old. I was at the home of a new friend I’d met in the local park. We were playing innocently when his father came home and began shouting. I only realised later what he’d been saying. “Is he a Jew? Get him out of here.”
I’m actually only half-Jewish, so perhaps I should have asked if I could at least stay until lunchtime…
In fact, I experienced very little antisemitism growing up in Britain and now living in Canada. I’ve three Jewish grandparents but my maternal grandmother was Anglican and I was raised with a limited Jewish identity.
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