Back in a city completely built and populated by refugees. Tel Aviv. Is there a better role model for the world of today? It seems like everybody is getting in one way or another paranoid about the “refugee problem” which is not a problem but the oldest pattern of the world. Rome, Paris, New York, all built by refugees, without them the world would be a different place. Pretty boring I suppose. In Tel Aviv, that youngest of world metropolises, the refugees at first only came from some parts of the world, then from some more parts of the world and now from all parts of the world. It works. Well, but aren´t they all Jewish? Just another lesson to learn over here. As with “the refugees” there does not exist anything like “the Jews”. They are as different as can be and the idea of a “Jewish look” is probably the oldest form of discrimination around. Just imagine, how people in Oslo perceive it in contrast to people in Cairo or Tel Aviv for that matter. The “Jewish look” is a myth and as such a sad proof of the fact that discrimination is still the origin of most problems we have. Let us stop discriminating people and start looking at them, one by one. A refugee is not the refugee, just as a Jew is not the Jew.
Back in a city completely built and populated by refugees. Tel Aviv. Is there a better role model for the world of today? It seems like everybody is getting in one way or another paranoid about the “refugee problem” which is not a problem but the oldest pattern of the world. Rome, Paris, New York, all built by refugees, without them the world would be a different place. Pretty boring I suppose. In Tel Aviv, that youngest of world metropolises, the refugees at first only came from some parts of the world, then from some more parts of the world and now from all parts of the world. It works. Well, but aren´t they all Jewish? Just another lesson to learn over here. As with “the refugees” there does not exist anything like “the Jews”. They are as different as can be and the idea of a “Jewish look” is probably the oldest form of discrimination around. Just imagine, how people in Oslo perceive it in contrast to people in Cairo or Tel Aviv for that matter. The “Jewish look” is a myth and as such a sad proof of the fact that discrimination is still the origin of most problems we have. Let us stop discriminating people and start looking at them, one by one. A refugee is not the refugee, just as a Jew is not the Jew.