she talks a lot about justice. There is a lot of hubris to spread around.
what do you mean?
That the phrase "international Jew" can have more than one meaning. There's a well documented history of Jewish segregation by mutual desire, that the many non-Jewish cultures in which Jews found themselves wanted no part of them and that a lot of Jews took care of their own because no one else would. It often seems something of a chicken/egg thing; even in Roman times, and certainly in Medieval Europe, Jews were viewed with suspicion and distrust, "foreign" in a way that superseded place of birth, and many Jews seemed to take the view that if their people had to survive by any means necessary they'd do exactly that, inverting in their own interactions the same double standards always applied to them. The Tanakh condemns oppressing "strangers" with the admonishment to remember "you were strangers in Egypt" but it also forbids imbibing foreign peoples and traditions lest it lead to idolatry, even states how many generations it takes for a non-Israelite to be "Jewish. " That can lead to two possible extremes: Ultra-nationalist Zionism that says Jews will never be safe except in their own homeland and places the best interests of any Gentile after that of any Jew, or an internationalist secular view that sees national and religious distinctions for Jews or anyone else as anachronistic and unjust.
In the French environment following the Franco-Prussian defeats that makes the Dreyfus Affair kind of inevitable. Both the view that would make French Jews into Israeli expatriates or refugees AND the view that would make Jews, Frenchmen and Germans citizens of the world is anathema to a 19th Century French nationalist.
That may not be what Agent Orange meant, but well could be (I'm sure he'll clarify one way or the other) and since I've been thinking about it ever since I read the lecture I wanted to mention it.
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Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus affair and related problems, in the LRB
06/06/2010 11:28:14 AM
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*remains amused at the suggestion of the Dreyfus Affairs "pertinence" to "current" events*
06/06/2010 05:14:23 PM
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I agree in part and (strongly) disagree in part.
06/06/2010 05:40:26 PM
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"If it's an eternal struggle, how could there ever be a solution or a peace?"
06/06/2010 06:20:39 PM
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Purim may or may not refer to a historic event. Even if it does, Haman was not likely an Arab.
07/06/2010 12:00:05 AM
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I second your main point.
07/06/2010 12:09:42 AM
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I don't discount that there is Arab blood in many or even most "Arabs".
07/06/2010 12:18:32 AM
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The holiday is centuries old and real, regardless.
07/06/2010 12:28:59 AM
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You're still missing the major point here.
07/06/2010 12:44:08 AM
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That seems a rather limited view of history.
07/06/2010 01:10:11 AM
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I (coincidentally) stumbled across those infamous hadith passages about Jews the other day.
07/06/2010 09:41:39 AM
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So?
07/06/2010 10:50:49 PM
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are you claiming that people would pull some things out of holy text and ignore the rest?
08/06/2010 12:16:41 PM
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well, for me this just proves why we are not supposed to live among non-Jews
06/06/2010 11:39:45 PM
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how so?
06/06/2010 11:41:18 PM
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It reminds me of what I kept thinking as I read it.
07/06/2010 12:51:36 AM
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couldn't get past the part where anyone who opposes Obama is a racist *NM*
08/06/2010 01:40:07 AM
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You hallucinated? *NM*
08/06/2010 08:39:37 AM
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No, that would've been one of the places where she should've shut up. *NM*
08/06/2010 08:58:11 AM
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No
08/06/2010 09:08:04 AM
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I think he's not talking about that bit, but about the very first paragraph.
08/06/2010 09:30:21 AM
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If there was more I didn't get far enough to hear it
08/06/2010 12:09:47 PM
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That's the problem with the speech - the large majority of what she had to say was worthwhile.
08/06/2010 01:15:39 PM
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