Vandalism for Peace (Granada, Spain)

by Micah Quinney Jones

URL: http://www.jewishjournal.com/opinion/article/vandalism_for_peace_granada_spain_20100216/

It has been over a year since the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) incursion into the Gaza Strip to halt the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas from launching rockets into Israel. Watching the events unfold on the Spanish news channels and listening to and participating in the ensuing debate in my Spanish university political science classes, I felt, for the first time in my young adult life that true, vitriolic feeling of anti-Semitism that has only become embolden, rather than diminished in the present day. In the subsequent months as I continued living in Spain, traveling throughout Europe, North Africa and ultimately returning to my university in California, I began to question and rethink what my Jewish identity means and what kind of future we as a people can hope to expect.

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