Reverend Lee’s Response Sounds Like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
After sharing this story at length with my German girlfriend she asked me what it means to me to be Jewish.
My response: I have little connection to Judaism as a religion because I don’t really believe in religion. What it means to me to be Jewish is that I am hated by some for no reason other than the fact of whom I was born to.
I whole heartedly acknowledge that I, in many cases, can hide my Jewishness where as a black person cannot hide their blackness. But it does not change the fact that to many – Black Americans, White Americans, Muslim Americans, and Christian Americans alike – my persecution would be acceptable and allowable.
I am more fearful of being persecuted for being Jewish than for being female, or for being gay. Yet being Jewish is the part of me with which I actually identify the least.
