georgephillip
Diamond Member
"(Susan) Nathan, a 54-year-old teacher and former Aids counsellor with the London Lighthouse Project, arrived in Israel four years ago, after the break-up of her marriage. For the first few months she shared a tiny room in an absorption centre near Tel Aviv.
'I was breastfed Zionism. My parents were prominent members of the liberal Jewish community in London and were firm friends of Abba Eban,' she says, referring to the Israeli foreign minister during the epoch-changing period of the 1967 six-day war, when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza from Jordan and Egypt.
"'At the age of 10 or 11 I remember telling my parents that one day I would live in Israel.'
"But since her move from Tel Aviv to work as an English teacher in deprived Tamra seven months ago, she has lost her Jewish friends. 'At first they thought I was just being provocative,' she says. 'Then they thought I was suffering some sort of mental breakdown. Now they realise I am serious, they have turned their backs.
"'What I have done is far too threatening.'"
Why do racists and fascists find Susan threatening?
A Jew Among...
'I was breastfed Zionism. My parents were prominent members of the liberal Jewish community in London and were firm friends of Abba Eban,' she says, referring to the Israeli foreign minister during the epoch-changing period of the 1967 six-day war, when Israel captured the West Bank and Gaza from Jordan and Egypt.
"'At the age of 10 or 11 I remember telling my parents that one day I would live in Israel.'
"But since her move from Tel Aviv to work as an English teacher in deprived Tamra seven months ago, she has lost her Jewish friends. 'At first they thought I was just being provocative,' she says. 'Then they thought I was suffering some sort of mental breakdown. Now they realise I am serious, they have turned their backs.
"'What I have done is far too threatening.'"
Why do racists and fascists find Susan threatening?
A Jew Among...