Israeli Jews should go back to Europe. What do the psychoanalysts say?

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!!

--Bela Grunberger, "The Anti-Semite and the Oedipal Conflict." (1964)

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flipper1966 · M

When I think of the image of Jews as intruders I see parallels between the position of Jews in Christian Europe during the middle ages and the postion of Jews in Muslim Palestine since the early 20th century.

The position of Jews in Christian Europe during the middle ages

1. Jews were seen as a cursed people in Medieval Europe. Their primal crime of "murdering Jesus" made them collectively guilty of deicide. The hatred of Jews was largely rooted in the Christian religion.

2. The Medieval Christians hatred of Jews came to be known as anti-semitism, a collection of stereotypes about the debased Jew. For Christians, the Jew had a mythical identity underlying his fact based identity.

3. Jews were outsiders or intruders in most of the communities where they lived.

4. In medieval Europe, Jews were depicted as "thieves and robbers." Martin Luther wrote in the 16th century:

The position of Jews in Muslim Palestine since the early 20th century.

1. The Quran depicts Jews as a cursed people. The hatred of Jews in Palestine has a strong religious basis in Islam. Another source of hatred of Jews is post-Zionism land theft in the Arab-Muslim territory of Palestine and the notion that Jews commit the genocide of Palestinians. The following text was posted on Islam.net

2. QUESTION: To what extent is Arab-Muslim hatred of Jews based on anti-Semitism, a collection of stereotypes about the debased Jew, seen as cursed in Islam? For Muslims, to what extent do Jews have a mythical identity underlying their arguably fact-based identity as land thieves?

3. For Muslims in Palestine, Jews are outsiders or intruders.

4. Palestinians depict Jews as land thieves.

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The conflation of deicide and genocide: