Us and them

摘要

"Was Israel all a mistake?" asks a lawyer at a debate on the Gazan war in a grand Georgian library in Manchester. None of the 40 or so professionals present says no. In the streets outside noisy, heavily policed anti-Israel demonstrations are taking place. "Death to Jews," a few protesters chant at ultra-Orthodox Jews on their way home through Broughton Park, in the north of the English city.