Isaac Brooks Fishman

The IHRA antisemitism definition is supposed to protect people like me. It won’t.

“Fuck Israel!” yelled the man at the crosswalk. I’m very visibly an Orthodox Jew: I wear a kippah and sport a full beard. The man, who I’d never seen before, was looking straight at me. It was a sunny Friday afternoon in Washington, D.C. Thankfully, the light turned green, so I could quickly walk away….