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Rawan Osman describes how Arab antisemitism is constructed and how it can be dismantled. She once ran out of a grocery store so quickly that she left her purse behind in the shopping cart, in her twenties and newly arrived in Strasbourg, she had just seen four Orthodox Jewish men for the first time in her life. Later, at home, she sat on her windowsill and spent weeks observing the neighbors she had been raised to fear, grappling with a question she had never before considered: why is the Jew the enemy? Rawan grew up in a secular family in southern Lebanon, an area under Hezbollah's influence.