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Source: https://www.ynetnews.com/article/SJyei97CH
I Cried When I Heard the British Election Exit Poll
(Ynet News) Sara Miller - British politics elicited a genuinely visceral response in me last week. I cried. This had been a battle over the soul of the country that my paternal grandfather and great uncles defended from the Nazis, the country that took in my maternal grandfather when he fled anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe. Almost every British Jew has this story or one like it. Competing in the election for the highest political office in the land was a man whose career has been dictated by his vilification of the only Jewish state, who apparently has never met an anti-Western terrorist he didn't like, and whose agitation, nastiness and tolerance of the worst of anti-Semites were wrapped in a cozy sweater and Santa beard. So when it became clear that Britain had said "no, thank you" to this man and his policies, the tears came. Many British people were revolted by Jeremy Corbyn and his lifelong allegiances. The suitcases can stay under the bed - for now.