For the last nine and a half months, we’ve experienced different kinds of battlefields. There are actual battlefields, where people fight and are wounded and killed. And then, of course, there are secondary battlefields: on college campuses, in the court of public opinion, on social media, on TV, in newspapers, via text messages.
And while no one has, thankfully, been killed on those battlefields, they are — in disturbing ways — no less vicious. This reality is so pervasive that for many it’s become the haunting soundtrack of the entire period. Here is one small story, like countless similar ones that have crossed our radar — about trolling, virtual bullying and Israel bashing.
The end song is Kol Ha’Olam Kulo (“The Whole Wide World”) by the Djamchid Sisters.
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