Better than that, we now have clarity. We are no longer laboring under illusions, bidding for affection that was always going to be withheld. They were honest with us, in the end, and that honesty is its own kind of freedom. We can go our own way now: not into a ghetto (we still have real allies) but into self-determination, as individuals and as a global people.
By Ben Freeman, in TABLET. On Antisemitism in the world.
Illustration: Mexican Black Obsidian Ceremonial Knife. Obsidian is sharper than steel.
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