Back to the Middle Ages

Hundreds of artists have signed an open letter that calls on the Venice Biennale, the world’s top art festival, to drop Israel’s national pavilion this year. In continuing to mount the Israeli Pavilion, the artists say, “The Biennale is platforming a genocidal apartheid state.”

Only a century ago, Jews were discriminated against everywhere and not allowed to participate in general cultural-political events. Two hundred years ago they were not allowed to live in certain towns and areas. In Hungary, Jews had no civil rights and could settle in the cities only with special permits. Equality was granted to Jews only in the French Revolution.  

Once we were accused of having killed Jesus, the son of God. Now they have found another imaginary guilt to dislike us. 

I feel we are sliding back into our historical place of boycotted, rejected community. I am not afraid of it, we flourished mightily in our isolation.