“Bomb!” said the Syrian man seated across from me on the bus in rural England.
As a refugee resettlement volunteer, my task that day was to help him learn the bus route he would take for his English language classes at the local community college, to start his family’s new life far from Damascus. His single word and explosive hand gesture conveyed the reason he and some 20,000 Syrian victims had sought safety under the UK’s Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme.
And now? There’s Gaza...