Not just torn down posters
<p>A week after the events of October 7, the day that Hamas killed 1,200 people and abducted 240 civilians in Israel, the day that a war broke out between Israel and Hamas and a day that inevitably spurred global antisemitism, I walk to my local tube and I am bombarded by a riot of red and white posters. I approach one and it starkly asserts: ‘Kidnapped, Kfir, 9 month Israeli baby(…) take a photo of the poster and share it’. I take my phone out, take a photo but I don’t share it. I am scared of the response from my non-Jewish peers. And then I move on in haste, fearing anyone see me show sympathy for this baby. As a non-Israeli, British Jew, this is the first time since October 7 that I am overwhelmed with the anxiety that Jews habitually face: that the world is against us. This is the moment I realise how polarised the Israel-Palestine conflict has become because I cannot openly show sympathy for the abduction of a baby.</p>
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