QUOTE: Derb!
"The English have nothing to be ashamed of in this regard, having been exceptionally hospitable to the Jews since re-admitting them in Oliver Cromwell’s time. (A marvellous story in itself, told in Part Four of Paul Johnson’s History of the Jews.) English philosemitism has continued in a direct line of descent since then, enlisting such notable figures as Sir Walter Scott, Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, David Lloyd George and Margaret Thatcher. Most Americans would consider it a wonderful and striking thing if a Jew were to be elected President of these United States. Pooh: we Brits had Benjamin Disraeli as Prime Minister 133 years ago. (Yes, I know, his father took the whole family to Christianity when Benjamin was 13. But Dizzy was born a Jew.) I was a bit disconcerted some years ago, when some different Jewish friends took me along to a Kol Nidre service, and I discovered that the only reference to England in the prayer book was to the 12th-century pogrom at York. Come on, guys: that was eight hundred years ago. Isn't there a statute of limitations on pogroms?"
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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