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Miri Rubin:

We can only understand anti-Judaism when we appreciate that it [is] not universal, and that it must be contextualized to be understood. . . . One looks around, guided by the single thing that anti-Judaism and similar social pathologies teach us loud and clear: that any attempt to categorize people, to place them in exclusive groups is a lie, and it requires an enormous effort of mendacity and persuasion to keep such lies believable. So much so that no claim can be coherent, that it cracks, and its cracks can become visible to us.