A segment on NPR Morning Edition today highlighted the growing trend of Israeli's leaving the country as the violence spreads. Two families mentioned as examples moving to Canada and Australia.

This morning in the London Telegraph, there is more about the events in Oldham, Greater Manchester. There the cultural tension is between "native" Britons and "Asians" (in other words, Pakistanis, Bangladeshi's, others from the Indian sub-continent). A prominent Tory party member, John Townsend, has sounded the old familiar refrain of fear that Britain is being turned into a mongrel nation. What amuses me is that Britain IS a mongrel nation and has been for millenia. Recall the invasions of the Angles and the Saxons and the Normans and the internal fighting and intermingling with the Hibernians, Celts and Picts. Britain is now known as an Anglo-Saxon nation, ironically named after groups that had invaded in the past.

Other Views

CultureBox on Slate (Judith Shulevitz) discusses Kevin McDonald, known in the field of Evolutionary Psychology, re: Anti-Semitism Evolutionary Psychology's Anti-Semite by Judith Shulevitz

Israel Shamir's view on Anti-Semitism: iviews.com

A 3-part series in the Telegraph of London on "Being Jewish" today; On-going feelings of insecurity in the Jewish community; Concerns about Assimilation and Jew against Jew.

Part 1: 'Our history has taught us to be insecure, that no place is for ever'

Part 2: Assimilation: will it spell the end of the Jews?

Part3: 'Jew against Jew is a greater threat than anything from the Arab world'

Today, I'm getting my mind wrapped. I delved into this blogging thing a year or so ago and kinda wondered what it was all about. Didn't get it then, so I'm trying harder now. Cheers all --