Western #Europeans will never forgive #Israel for the Holocaust, aka, “Guilt-Defensiveness” #AntiSemitism. Book review:

Bari Weiss's book, Antisemitism and the return of history, touches on the classical types of antisemitism with which we are all too familiar. Yet it is the new "Guilt-Defensiveness" AntiSemitism that is most dangerous in the west, especially given the (shady) alliances they have chosen to make. 

 Neo-Nazis, in a way, are easy. We know they wish us dead.

Anti-Semites with PhDs, the ones who defend their bigotry as enlightened thinking, are harder to fight.

On the new Guilt-Defensiveness Anti-Semitism:

The Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex famously remarked, with biting sarcasm, that "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz."

…Rex's formulation about German society punishing Jews because of the memory of the Shoah, which infuses pathological guilt into many Germans, needs to be updated.

In a modernized version of Rex, one might say that "Western Europeans will never forgive Israel for the Holocaust." 

In short, that Western European countries such as France, Sweden, Austrian, Italy and others that were complicit in the Shoah are intensely focused on imposing discipline and punishment on Israel because of their guilt associated with Holocaust. 

This is also terrifying: 

A 2017 German government study revealed that nearly 33 million Germans, out of a total population of 82 million, are infected with contemporary antisemitism–that is hatred of the Jewish state.

The report said, in a section titled "Agreement with Israel-related antisemitism," that 40% of Germans who were polled approved of the following statement: "Based on Israel's policies, I can understand people having something against the Jews."

See the whole review on the Jerusalem Post here: https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Book-review-Antisemitism-and-the-return-of-history-603483

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