Watching the emotional videos of the Israeli hostages being returned from Gaza, many observers were haunted by the question of what would happen next. How would Hamas be deradicalized (as President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan suggested)? Who will rule Gaza? How will Israel prevent future attacks?

But there is another, perhaps less urgent, but no less important question. What will we tell our children about the past two years?

I did not grow up around antisemitism. Or at least none that I knew of. My parents had moved to Worcester, Massachusetts in the mid-1970s, shortly before I was born. And while I occasionally heard of country clubs that didn’t allow Jews and even neighborhoods where Jews were not welcome, I cannot recall a single instance of someone using an ethnic slur agains

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