(JNS) “I think I first really thought about [antisemitism] when I was at a concert with my older sister. I went to see Sabrina Carpenter with her, and we heard Hebrew; we started joining in. Someone, one of the people we’d made friends with, asked, ‘What country are you guys from? Israel?’ An older man overheard it and started screaming, ‘You’ve committed a genocide! You’re killing babies!’ He saw me and my sister sitting there crying, and he just carried on. He didn’t care.”
Those were the words of 16-year-old Libby, a Jewish girl from London, in an interview on May 1 with the British Broadcasting Corporation. Libby spoke with presenter Anna Foster on the BBC’s Radio 4 flagship politics program “Today” just two days after an assailant stabbed two Jewish men in the street in Golders Green, a well-known Jewish neighborhood in North London.
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