Do you remember the posters for the municipal elections last year?
"Free Copenhagen from Zionism."
Meaning the Jews, by and large.
And no, that's not what it says. It says a word that makes it possible to say it without saying it.
A word without a face.
This is what it looks like when that mindset takes hold. Not on a poster on a lamppost, but in a shopping centre, where a woman is hunted, shouted at and followed by a mob until the staff get her out through a back door.
The mob doesn't ask what she thinks about the settlements. The mob never asks about anything. The distinction between Zionist and Jew exists on the poster. It has never found its way into a mob.
That's how it works. First you remove the face with a word. Then the mob does the rest.
And let me say it plainly, so nobody has to guess - it's the same rot that lives inside the ones who go after Muslims.
Same word. Same mob. Same back door. Different woman.
If you behave like this, you haven't taken a position on anything. You've handed yourself over to something. And it's time you took yourself back.
Whoever your God or State is.
Whatever you believe in.
What is true is that the woman in the shopping centre is one Human Being with a face, and that no mob has ever had the right to take it from her.
And what is true is that there are things that cannot live on top of each other. Views of Man that cannot be shared. Laws that cannot apply at the same time in the same house.
People have been in conflict over that for as far back as we have written history, and it doesn't go away because we stop mentioning it.
Those who refuse to see the first end up in the shopping centre.
Those who refuse to see the second end up leaving it to the mob.
We have to do BOTH.
See the face. And say out loud what is incompatible, and then work out, peacefully and with open eyes, what we do about it. Whether we can go around it. Or whether we have to admit that it cannot live in the same place.
There is ONE way.
And it is NOT your way.
It is the way that goes through what is true. All the way. Even there, where it hurts.
Demand this of your politicians.
