Re: In nut-shell, the very foundation of anti--Semitism is not Moses era, but unacceptance (silent ridiculing) of the very foundation of the Christianity- the Jesus Christ story
Bullshit! C'mon, goldsnow: the above might well fit the posh anti-Semitism of "educated anti-Semites" but I'm afraid that wholesale anti-Semitism has more to do with plain jealousy towards Jews as the ideal fulfillment of the bourgeois role model.... Moses? Judah?? Hey, who cares?! Most people don't give a toss about Moses, Abraham and co. --all they're pointing at is the success story of Steven Spielberg, Michael Eisner, the Rothschilds, the Maxwells, and so forth.... The main "black dot" on the Jews's sociological image is that they (collectively) truly embody the exact social achievement of the bourgeois while, simulteanously, denying the same self-accomplishment to the Gentiles. Of course, such a Jewish denial is symbolic: Bill Gates, although himself a controversial, modern Rockefeller of the IT world doesn't arouse any irrational hatred because every average Joe can identify with him. As Zizek put it in his aforementioned paper, the mere virtuality of attaining social(/sexual/political,...) gratification is as gratifying as the actual fulfillment! But, since most people can't associate themselves with alien ethnic/religious minorities, they resent thriving minorities as a deprivation of their own self-fulfillment.
Regarding your reply to MNI: Isn't he [Einstein] also claimed American now, and a Swiss? gg>>
of course, but there is a very good reason for that....It was not (and still largely is not) Politically Correct to spell-out obvious that Einstein was a German Jew, or simply Jew (like many others) that escaped Europe and resided in America...
In the same vein: is it politically correct to note that actor Charlie Chaplin was not Jewish --and had to flee US McCarthysm, btw? |
