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Where does this lead I wonder?

Today I watched a bus driver in London half pull up to a bus stop and then pull away before stopping when he saw the only person waving him down. She happened to be a little old lady with dark skin and a head scarf. There were murmurs of distaste from the two people standing nearby her but she dismissed the problem with a wave of her hand and walked off.

There seems to have been a noticeable uptick in this sort of thing over the past few months.

Why the meaning of “anti-Semitism” has changed

Here’s just another example of why the term “anti-Semitism” has increasingly come to mean “mild criticism of Israeli government policies,” rather than “hostility to or prejudice against Jews.”

Something I’ve experienced myself.