January 30, 2015
IF WE MEANT IT EVERYONE WOULDN'T HAVE HAILED CHARLIE:
Do we really mean 'never again'? (Charles Krauthammer, January 29, 2015, Washington Post)
The rise of European anti-Semitism is, in reality, just a return to the norm. For a millennium, virulent Jew-hatred -- persecution, expulsions, massacres -- was the norm in Europe until the shame of the Holocaust created a temporary anomaly wherein anti-Semitism became socially unacceptable.
Imagine Western leaders turning out in the street to support Der Sturmer if Jews had attacked it in the 30s....
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 30, 2015 3:49 PM
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