Yeah. She said that the abuse was always about Palestine and the actions of Israel; she was never accosted by demented Christians shouting "You killed Jesus!" As you say it was simply people unable to separate Judaism the faith from Israel the state.
I'm particularly sad about the rise of...
Hmmm. A few years ago I worked with a woman who was a practising Jew (This was in Enfield). She used to wear a Star of David on a necklace, the same way as a lot of Catholics wear a crucifix. Then in the summer she stopped wearing it. Someone asked why, and she said she was getting so much...