https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315254
Jewish intellectuals began to describe the leftist reservation against Jewish self-empowerment early. In the USA, many formerly leftist Jews became conservatives after understanding what had happened to the Left after 1968. In France, author and member of the Académie Française Alain Finkielkraut wrote Le juif imaginaire (The Imaginary Jew) in 1980, denouncing Leftist Jews who used their Jewish roots in order to fight against conservatism, without any interest in what Jewish identity actually means.
Jews joined far left parties because they promised a world of equality. No Jews, Christians, Muslims, just a bunch of Comrades. Instead of being a "Dirty Jew" they would be a Worker or Citizen. If it meant giving up being Jewish, so what?
ReplyDeleteAnd then they discovered that even among the Left they were still Dirty Jews. So why not move to the other side?