Hannah Arendt, Adolf Eichmann, and the Jews
A book that hasn’t lost its ability to appall.
February 23, 2018
Shouting “death to the Jews” doesn’t count as incitement.
While a few particularly severe instances of vicious attacks on French Jews, almost always perpetrated by immigrants from Muslim countries and their descendants, have garnered attention in the U.S.—for instance the brutal murder of Sarah Halimi in her own home in April 2017—countless others go unremarked. Guy Millière surveys some of these incidents, and the shocking indifference with which they are met:
A book that hasn’t lost its ability to appall.
Despite threats to the contrary.
Shouting “death to the Jews” doesn’t count as incitement.
The right name, the right time, and the right place. But is it the right Isaiah?
They’ve lost many battles, but not the war.
While a few particularly severe instances of vicious attacks on French Jews, almost always perpetrated by immigrants from Muslim countries and their descendants, have garnered attention in the U.S.—for instance the brutal murder of Sarah Halimi in her own home in April 2017—countless others go unremarked. Guy Millière surveys some of these incidents, and the shocking indifference with which they are met:
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