By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
The Jerusalem Post - 01/28/2014
The acclaimed British novelist Howard Jacobson opened his speech at the
B’nai B’rith World Center in Jerusalem last October with piercing
sarcasm: “The question is rhetorical. When will Jews be forgiven the
Holocaust? Never.”
However, there has been a shift in the underpinnings of anti-Semitism.
Israel has become the collective Jew among the nations, as the late
French historian Léon Poliakov said about the new metamorphosis of
Jew-hatred.
Jacobson was piggy-backing on the eye-popping insight of the Israel
psychoanalyst Zvi Rex, who reportedly said: “The Germans will never
forgive the Jews for Auschwitz.”
The anti-Semitic logic at work here is Europe’s pathologically
guilt-filled response to the Holocaust, which, in short, is to shift
the onus of blame to the Jews to cleanse one’s conscience. Two
German-Jewish Marxist philosophers – Max Horkheimer and Theodor W.
Adorno – coined an esoteric sociological term for what unfolded in
post-Shoah Germany: Guilt-defensiveness anti-Semitism.
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