Can it be argued that todays tolerance toward those of the jewish faith and support for israel is a direct result of a feeling of guilt related directly to the holocast?
If this is the case...is not the greatest danger the Jewish people a gradual erosion of that "gentile " feeling of guilt due to the perception ,right or wrong, that israelis are becoming the persecuters rather than the persecuted.
The phenomenon is more properly described as "displacement", where multi-cultural Euro elites, guilty about their colonial past and deeply intimidated by the threats of their Muslim minorities, remove their own residual guilt about the Holocaust by putting it onto the Israelis, who can be slotted so neatly into the pigeonhole of "European white colonials oppressing the poor brown natives."
The cleverest of the Palestinian intellectuals seized upon this wonderful idea (for them) and engendered the firm belief that Israeli misdeeds were uniquely ripe for judgement, since Israelis were "Western", whereas for Europeans to think they can judge the behavior of Arabs, that is "Orientalism". Bad, bad, bad. The Western scholars who devoted their lives to studying the East did so because they were racists. Edward Said said so. And the idea was generally accepted wherever multi-culturalism was believed.
Now we see the grandsons of men who screamed "Jews, out of Europe!" screaming "Jews, out of Palestine!"
And so it goes. |
