I felt devastated reading your words as a woman who married a Christian and as a woman that often views antisemitism as an exaggeration of circumstances by Jewish people. Let me explain the latter: when I went to the ACLU conference on “ Never is Now” it appeared to me that they were counting everything that everyone said that was not positive about Jews and or positive about Israel as antisemitism. Protest marches gatherings were all antisemitism. I see now from what you wrote Amichai that if you view yourself as the Holy seed religiously or racially you view yourself as holier and or superior to all others. You are above and therefore should not criticized or demeaned on any level. They that feel this way are always threatened by the Other. This interpretation makes me terribly sad but makes me understand why so many Jews cannot forgive the Germans for The Holocaust no matter what they say or do to express their sorrow for what happened. Germany the only country that I know that takes responsibility for what happened and works towards it not happening again…still many can not forgive or accept because they killed the Holy Seed
I felt devastated reading your words as a woman who married a Christian and as a woman that often views antisemitism as an exaggeration of circumstances by Jewish people. Let me explain the latter: when I went to the ACLU conference on “ Never is Now” it appeared to me that they were counting everything that everyone said that was not positive about Jews and or positive about Israel as antisemitism. Protest marches gatherings were all antisemitism. I see now from what you wrote Amichai that if you view yourself as the Holy seed religiously or racially you view yourself as holier and or superior to all others. You are above and therefore should not criticized or demeaned on any level. They that feel this way are always threatened by the Other. This interpretation makes me terribly sad but makes me understand why so many Jews cannot forgive the Germans for The Holocaust no matter what they say or do to express their sorrow for what happened. Germany the only country that I know that takes responsibility for what happened and works towards it not happening again…still many can not forgive or accept because they killed the Holy Seed