Thousands of people mobbed the Israeli embassy in Cairo,and Israel was forced to issue a statement regretting the deaths in the hopethat it would contain the anti-Israel mood.
Still, it suggests that many Jews are reacting to anti-Semitism and fears of assimilation not by moving to Israel, but by rediscovering what it means to be Jewish outside it.
The United States joined Israel in walking out of that meeting because of document language about Israel and Zionism that U.S. officials considered anti-Semitic.