Justifying Terror Against Jews

(Brief essay on the recent Amsterdam proto-pogrom)

Jewish women attacked in Amsterdam

Have you ever had so much to say on a subject that it feels impossible to say anything at all? I’m sitting at my computer, my mind full of dozens of places to begin.

I’ll start with someone I used to know when I lived in New York in the mid-eighties. I won’t mention his name because I’m about to slam him in this piece. H…