Some transformations of the Figure of the Jew:
Drumont’s hatred was of a somewhat new kind: where for Voltaire the Jews had been evil as a relic of antiquity, for Drumont they were evil as a herald of modernity. Before, the Jews’ refusal to change was a sign of their iniquity; now their appetite for change was the sign. The more eagerly a Jew attempted to escape from Judaism, the more Jewish he revealed himself to be—a snaky shape-shifter with no allegiances to anything except clan.
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The first [reading of the Affaire] is Theodore Herzl’s, which gave birth to modern Zionism. Herzl had been present at the Dreyfus degradation on that January day, as a journalist for a Viennese paper, and if one moment engraved his sense that Jews could never find a safe home in Europe this was it: “It has been established that justice could be refused to a Jew for the sole reason that he was a Jew.” Dreyfus, the perfect case of attempted assimilation, “signifies a strategic position which . . . is already lost.”
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Drumont’s hatred was of a somewhat new kind: where for Voltaire the Jews had been evil as a relic of antiquity, for Drumont they were evil as a herald of modernity. Before, the Jews’ refusal to change was a sign of their iniquity; now their appetite for change was the sign. The more eagerly a Jew attempted to escape from Judaism, the more Jewish he revealed himself to be—a snaky shape-shifter with no allegiances to anything except clan.
[...]
The first [reading of the Affaire] is Theodore Herzl’s, which gave birth to modern Zionism. Herzl had been present at the Dreyfus degradation on that January day, as a journalist for a Viennese paper, and if one moment engraved his sense that Jews could never find a safe home in Europe this was it: “It has been established that justice could be refused to a Jew for the sole reason that he was a Jew.” Dreyfus, the perfect case of attempted assimilation, “signifies a strategic position which . . . is already lost.”
the whole article here.
catch-22
AntwortenLöschenΜα τώρα, γιατί πρέπει να μπλέκετε τον Εβραϊσμό με την ομοφυλοφιλία; Θέλετε να λέει ο κόσμος οτι οι Εβραίοι είναι ανώμαλοι;
AntwortenLöschenΑίσχος!
Well I am not, but since you brought it up, should I remind you that the most radical persecutors of the Jews, namely the Nazis, were historically and are now homosexuals?
AntwortenLöschenAs the poet said, "Eradicate the homosexuals and fascism will perish".