The Golden Age of American Jews Is Ending

[JohnUbele]

"...Stacey Zolt Hara was in her office in downtown San Francisco when a text from her 16-year-old daughter arrived: "I'm scared", she wrote. Her classmates at Berkeley High School were preparing to leave their desks and file into the halls, part of a planned "walkout" to protest Israel. Like many Jewish students, she didn't want to participate. It was October 18, 11 days after the Hamas invasion of southern Israel.

Zolt Hara told her daughter to wait in her classroom. She was trying to project calm. A public-relations executive, Zolt Hara had moved her family from Chicago to Berkeley six years earlier, hoping to find a community that shared her progressive values. Her family had developed a deep sense of belonging there.

But a moral fervor was sweeping over Berkeley High that morning. Around 10:30, the walkout began. Jewish parents traded panicked reports from their children. Zolt Hara heard that kids were chanting, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free", a slogan that suggests the elimination of Israel. Rumors spread about other, less coy phrases shouted in the hallways, carrying intimations of violence..."

Source:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/ar ... ty/677469/