The striking thing about in the discourse on Israel is how singularly absolved it is from reality checks:
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/statu...78950163988724
There are many, many reasons to this, from the massive influx of Qatari money to universities to the resentful bitterness of a left still huffing the fumes of the dead Soviet empire to European politicians needing votes from Muslim constituents.
But perhaps there's also something more basic in the very structures of our knowledge about the world, at least according to this stunning book which I cannot recommend enough.
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Originally Posted by jadis
Absolutely. It has layers of historical complexity which Americans are not always best equipped to parse, though the truth is that thinking about "the Jewish question" is difficult in general ( David Nirenberg's masterpiece is a long and tentative answer to why that is the case). |