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Howard Jacobson hates protests. So what does he do to fight antisemitism? Howl
Jacobson was shocked by the gleeful response to October 7 in parts of academia and the hard Left, “though I was hardened to it all”. In 2014 he wrote J, a novel in which “every Jew in the country was expelled, gone, finished, none left”. He believes the “pro” Palestine marches are “genocidal marches, absolutely: ‘get rid of the Jews’”. October 7 and the aftermath, Jacobson says, performed an essential function for Europeans: retrospective absolution for the Holocaust. “It wiped out the Holocaust.” It went further, by charging the Jews themselves with Holocaust in Gaza: “The Genocide”.
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