Israeli Jews should go back to Europe. What do the psychoanalysts say?
[quote]The notion that Jews are intruders is arguably classic anti-Semitism in that it can be traced back psychoanalytically to the child's relationship with the father vis-a-vis the mother. That is, the view that Jews are intruders is Oedipal in nature.
Keep in mind that 55-60% of Israeli Jews are not European; they are Middle Eastern in origin. They came to Israel not because of European Zionism but because they got kicked out of Arab countries after 1948. I love when people refer to Israelis as "Zionists." Most Jews in Israel are not descended from Zionists!! [/quote]
[i]--Bela Grunberger, "The Anti-Semite and the Oedipal Conflict." (1964) [/i]
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Many people don't even realise how anti-Semitic their culture is. Classical culture is imbued with anti-semitism. I've watched two pieces of fiction lately, an old one, a recent one; in both cases the villain was a Jew. Many people don't want to understand that the victims of ( and worse still , the offspring of these victims) a large-scale genocide that was organised in several countries, often with the connivance of ordinary citizens, want to exist as something else than the eternal refugee, the eternal scapegoat, the eternal victim. I do understand that a lot of Jewish people wanted to create a nation for themselves. And yet I abhor all religions and the very idea of starting a modern state based on religious principles does not sound good to my ears, and it's going to be tough to sustain this model without reproducing a form of xenophobia/ segregation.
