Second, if someone is dead quiet about rampant racism - doesn't whisper a word when people are under constant racist assault - and only chimes in to pick at people calling that racism out, I'm going to start wondering. I may even start making some inferences and assumptions.
Absolutely puzzling if you are.
I have constantly called out racism (sometimes augmented with references to the racism I have experienced in my 27 years on this mortal coil as a mixed race black human who has lived in multiple nations) since I joined this board in summer 2018. Same for homophobia (being a lesbian myself), and also misogyny (being a cis female myself).
I live in a county (Sweden) that has a large percentage of Muslims, many of them radical, anti-semitic haters who either have the potential for violence or have actually engaged into anti-semitic violence, whether here or abroad.
I have not, nor do I intend to, join in the anti-Israel protests here as I do not share AT ALL the the feeling (that many of protestors carry in their hearts and minds) that Israel (and all Jews in general for the truly radical ones) should be erased from the planet.
Not only that, but my wife and I have a standing offer to two uni students (2 Israeli young women here from the Tel Aviv area, studying for economic degrees, one of whom I happened to tutor a couple of years ago) to come and stay with us here in inner Stockholm if they continue to feel unsafe (they live together in Södertälje, a hotbed of hatred of Israel and Jews in certain parts) in their flat. They are close to taking us up on the offer. They both detest Netanyahu and the Likud types, btw, but are not at all anti zionists either. They hate Trump like we all do as well (partially, but absolutely not fully due to one of their parents losing their job in Tel Aviv when Trump moved the American embassy to Arnona, in Jerusalem).
I grew up in London (as you know), with a shedload of wonderful Arabs and/or Muslims as friends, but I also saw the anti-semitism flow from many outside of my in-group. I lost a good Arab Muslim friend (he was a bit of a mentor to me but I could no longer countenance his increasingly vitriolic anti Israeli stances) over the Labour anti-semitic dross.
I also have had and do have many close acquaintances and/or friends who were Jewish as well, more than a few of them who are Israeli. Hell, I myself am both part Sephardic Portuguese Jewish and part Lebanese Arab (both from my mum's side). I am innately intertwined in all this at multiple genetic, familial, professional, and personal association (friends, acquaintances, and surrounding humans) levels.
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