Howard Jacobson
The lead actor in a darkly hilarious Isaac Chotiner interview:
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[Chotiner] What should be the lead story on days when lots of children are killed?
[Jacobson] I’m not talking about those days. This was every single night. I’m telling you I saw a dead baby every single night. You couldn’t look at a child, pictures of a child being killed every single night without thinking this is making my people, my kin, out to be child murderers. I’ve got two options for you. I can believe it’s true. O.K., it’s true. It’s true. That’s what we do. That’s what the Israelis, not us, but the Israelis, do. But we feel a kinship with the Israelis. That’s what they do. And so maybe there we are again. Maybe everything that they said about us in 1200 and 1300 was true. This is what the Jews do—kill children. I’m not going to buy it. I’m not going to buy it.
[Chotiner] Howard, I think maybe we’re in a bit of a worrisome place if you see photos of dead children on television and your first thought is, They’re trying to make me, a Jew, hate my people.
[Jacobson] You’ve twisted what I’ve said. That’s not my first thought. That’s not my first thought.
[Chotiner] Second thought?