Israel Quotes by Howard Jacobson

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

— Howard Jacobson

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

— Howard Jacobson

In the matrimonial life of the Jewish male every day is Yom Kippur.

— Howard Jacobson

The Stop The War Coalition is a sort of home to Jew-haters because its hate music about Israel is so catchy.

— Howard Jacobson

The Christian Armenian story was the Polish Jewish story. The efforts of the Armenians to stay alive in Musa Dagh chimed with…

— Howard Jacobson

To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse…

— Howard Jacobson

The terrorist isn't a problem because he doesn't conform; he's a problem because he does. It's what he conforms to that makes…

— Howard Jacobson

Leaned on by Turkey and understandably wary of false equivalences - for not every death is a massacre, and not every war…

— Howard Jacobson

I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.

— Howard Jacobson

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach…

— Howard Jacobson

There was no question of ever sending us to Jewish schools... They wanted us out there. They wanted us to be lawyers…

— Howard Jacobson

The presence of a Jew in any movement no more guarantees it to be innocent of antisemitism than guilty. And that applies…

— Howard Jacobson

When I first went to Israel, I saw soldiers pushing Palestinians around and thought, 'I can't stand this'. Then I'd meet somebody…

— Howard Jacobson

Alone of prejudices, anti-Zionism is sacrosanct. How very dare we distinguish the motivation of one sort from another? Or question, in any…

— Howard Jacobson

When I see ultra-Orthodox Jews stamping all over Jaffa, or when I see them deciding who is a Jew, I think: 'What's…

— Howard Jacobson

Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who…

— Howard Jacobson

To be clear, I abhor the separation wall. It is an eyesore in itself and makes tangible the failed diplomacy and cruel…

— Howard Jacobson