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As a Jewish Israeli Living in America, My Life Is Getting More Dangerous
(Ha'aretz) Noa Aviv - I was standing by the roadside near my home in Michigan holding a picture of a 10-month-old baby believed kidnapped to Gaza when a woman shouted at me, "Murderer! Genocide! Shame! Shame! Shame!" Many students on American college campuses have decided, at our expense, to be the justice warriors of their generation, to oppose anything that smacks of privilege (and Jews are often automatically accused of being privileged here). It's quite refreshing for me to be seen as white all of a sudden. Both my parents came from North Africa. Now it turns out that I'm white, too. Little did my father know that one generation later I'd be a full-fledged white person and be treated to all the gifts that come with that, such as personally being accused of genocide. My friends in Israel are running to the shelter, but I wonder if I am really safer than them. After all, when they go to work, everyone is supportive. When they come home, the neighbor from the building across the street isn't calling for their destruction. Here people I know are afraid to speak Hebrew or wear a kippa in public.