Being a Critic of Israel Means Never Having to Explain How It Should Defend Itself
Israel exists to end the victimization of Jews.
April 23, 2018
Hitler fought World War II to defeat “the Jews.”
Racism—not occasional prejudice but a worldview that posits the “biological” inferiority and superiority of different groups of humans—constituted a crucial component of Nazism. Yet while the Third Reich applied this set of ideas to the Jews—not to mention Africans, Slavs, Gypsies, and others—racial thinking alone does not explain what motivated the Holocaust, as Jeffrey Herf writes:
Israel exists to end the victimization of Jews.
A civil-rights group or an arm of the Democratic party?
The specter of deism.
Hitler fought World War II to defeat “the Jews.”
According to the archaeologists.
Racism—not occasional prejudice but a worldview that posits the “biological” inferiority and superiority of different groups of humans—constituted a crucial component of Nazism. Yet while the Third Reich applied this set of ideas to the Jews—not to mention Africans, Slavs, Gypsies, and others—racial thinking alone does not explain what motivated the Holocaust, as Jeffrey Herf writes:
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