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9. Final Points to Ponder
1. Irena Klepfisz, a Jew born in Poland in 1941, escaped the 1943 Warsaw
Uprising (her father was killed on the second day of the Uprising).
She writes:
“Jews ... have been unable to absorb the experience of the
Holocaust, have not learned how to transcend the catastrophe. They’ve
mistakenly thought that to transcend means to forget the past, that
to think about the present is to abandon the past. …it's kept
many of them from universalizing their experience, from joining with
others who have experienced oppression—not perhaps an exact duplication
of Jewish oppression, but nevertheless oppression.”
http://www.bartleby.com/66/9/32909.html
- Is Antisemitism caused by Jewish isolationism, or did Antisemitism
cause Jewish isolationism?
- Do you agree with Klepfisz?
- What is the philosophy behind the ADL's work in the wider community
on Hate?
2. Is Antisemitism primarily either a or b, and why?:
a: A Jewish problem?
b: A non-Jewish problem?
3.What antisemitic themes are common to Muslim, left and right-wing
Antisemitism?
4. How do these three ideological sectors defined and changed by their
own Antisemitism, according to the following quotations?
- What would they have or be, without this hatred?
- What values have been lost through their Antisemitism?
“Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without
faith”
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983), U.S. philosopher. The Passionate State
of Mind, aph. 225 (1955).
“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955), Spanish essayist, philosopher.
“To the Reader,” Meditations on Quixote (1914)
5. What has been the contribution of the Internet to Antisemitism, and
what is it's potential impact on Antisemitism?
6. What is the best way to campaign against Antisemitism? What have
you found to be effective? [See also further down on http://www.ajc.org/InTheMedia/RelatedArticles.asp?did=889]
7. How can Israel help combat Antisemitism?
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