Why do people love dead Jews?
Author | BRANDON MARLON |
Published date | 13 October 2021 |
Publication title | Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel) |
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To her credit, Horn does not shy away from speaking hard truths. She candidly states that "people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become."
She recognizes that, for many gentiles, "Jews were people who, for moral and educational purposes, were supposed to be dead." She decries the prevalent yet perverse "mania" for and "popular obsession" with dead Jews, and the glaring disparity between this morbid fascination and the callous apathy for living Jews, routinely troubled by bigotry and regularly menaced by the hateful and violent. As an alert American Jewess and a lucid thinker, the authoress laments the abiding tolerance not only of antisemitism but of its predictable outcome, Judeocidal murder and mass murder, and is especially exercised by the proliferation of these dark phenomena in the US, no longer as exceptional as American myth insists. She rightly disdains "the debasing act of succumbing to discrimination instead of fighting it", and soberly avers that "the world really is full of s***. We can pretend the s*** is not there, or we can think through how to live with it without making...
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