Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021

* By the way: it used to be the case that while violence against Jews might be minimised or excused by some on the left, it tended still to be mainly perpetrated by the far right. Now – and I would say partly because of something this book is about, the positioning of Jews as privileged/on the side of the oppressor – it’s not so simple. Some of these attacks will have come from the right, but some will have come from Islamists, and the Yellow Vests cover a wide political spectrum, including the far left. Meanwhile, the Jersey City shootings were carried out by two people linked to a group called the Black Hebrew Israelites. As a Jew, now, you can feel under attack from all sides.