The Ugly Exigencies of Genocide

Israel’s atrocities in Gaza have changed the way we speak about Zionism and Jewish culture.

I have a strange memory that until now I never felt able to share.  I was around eleven or twelve.  Something like that.  A kid, but not a small one.  I was in the kitchen of our small house in Bluefield, Virginia, and my parents were arguing. 

It wasn’t a traumatic argument.  It was rather silly and I recall feeling that way at the time.  They weren’t arguing about money, infidelity, or addiction.  They were arguing about Fiddler on the Roof

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