There’s so much “anti-Zionism” floating around these days that it’s hard to keep it all straight. But the progressive city of Berkley seems to have some of the most strident anti-Zionists. They’re not just hanging out at UC Berkley. As I noted here, a Holocaust survivor recently wrote that the tone of the city was the worst it had been since she arrived there in 1957.
Over the 65 years that I have called this beautiful area home, I have occasionally encountered antisemitism, but these one-off incidents never succeeded in destroying my spirit. When I was four years old, Nazis burst into my bedroom and sent me and my family to Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp. We were soon released and I was smuggled out of Germany by a Christian woman. After this harrowing experience, not much in the Bay Area could scare me.
But since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the hatred…
