Comment: I admire you for your courage, integrity, and the depth of your thought. However, trauma created by the Holocaust is only one way of looking at this problem. History of Jewish expulsions and pogroms began long before WW2. They took place in different times and different parts of the Earth, in different cultures. Something was causing them, something that the Jewish people need to identify and reflect on. I have a pretty good idea what that something was and I see it today, too. I don’t want to touch it because it is a delicate subject and it would only trigger a defensive reaction among some Jewish communities. Correction: I should say, “Zionist communities” because many Jews don’t support Zionism or cultural isolation based on the belief that they are “chosen by God” and therefore somehow better than the rest of us. Anyhow, untying this knot is not going to be easy but it can only be done and addressed by Jews themselves.

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