and just posted some of my history in another thread. I grew up as a Catholic in a small Jewish community in grammar school, had every Jewish holiday off and my classmates were my friends. I could not believe we got all those days off, what a great time to get both Jewish and Catholic off from school!
We did not have any knowledge and no classmates of other religions at the time, Jewish mostly, or Christian, but now we know are more informed.
Honestly most of us never identified as a religion, we skipped services, we had fun. We went caroling together before Christmas, had our first foray into hash from an older brother. We did not care about religion, that was the good old days.
So what changed? The settlements in the West Bank have not helped, nor has the right of Palestinians in Gaza to move freely. I'm not going to blame this entirely on the far right or far left, I do know what an "Antifa" sticker looks like that you mentioned and why your son felt threatened and I am sorry that he did. What is this symbol, I'm curious.
Indigenous people have been slaughtered, dark skinned people have been killed and enslaved, how many, I'm not sure? I do not want to try and diminish the suffering of Jewish people during the holocaust or what happened on October 7.
I currently live in an over 55 community, many Jewish with a decent mix of other Asian cultures, we get along, although we have differences along political lines, that is the most important diving line.
I'm sorry your son felt threatened, that should not happen. With the current events it is more pronounced because of the stance Israel is taking towards the entire population of Gaza.
The more we try and group people along religious or ethnic lines does not help anyone IMHO.
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