Rachel Wahba

The nuns, my teachers, at Stella Maris, who blamed the Jews for the Holocaust, and the new self-proclaimed guardians against Islamophobia in progressive circles have something in common. Both manipulate misguided political responses aimed to silence. In seventh grade, I believed my oral book report on Adolf Eichmann’s role in the Holocaust would shed light on the danger and horror of unchecked anti Semitism. Naïvely I believed they would see where Jew hatred went if I reporte