Mayim Bialik on Rise of Anti-Semitism: ‘There Has Not Been an Experience in My Lifetime that Has Prepared Me for This’

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BIALIK: "Hey, everybody. This is not scripted, which I feel like if I start writing what I’m feeling, I may never stop, so I decided to talk a little bit about what some people may not understand about what you’re Jewish friends are experiencing. So, imagine if there was a massacre of an ethnic group or a religious group the equivalent of 50,000 Americans, and imagine if what happened after that was that all over the world there were marches of tens of thousands of people calling for further massacre of those people. I can’t imagine it. It’s unimaginable. And that’s what it feels like right now, as a Jewish person. That no matter your politics, no matter what you understand or don’t understand about politics, no matter if you know the history of the establishment of state of Israel, no matter if you know the history of the Jewish experience for thousands of years, including the history before Islam, there has not been an experience in my lifetime that has prepared me for this. I have heard from many people my whole life that anti-Semitism is growing, that the Holocaust, while we say we will never forget, many have forgotten. And the swiftness with which the global population has seized upon the massacre of Jewish civilians living inside of a border, the swiftness with which the world has stepped up to redefine terrorism, to redefine statehood, to redefine the right of a people to exist, nothing has prepared me or any of us for this."