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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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.
[b]The position of Jews in Christian Europe during the middle ages[/b]
1. Jews were seen as a cursed people in Medieval Europe. Their primal crime of "murdering Jesus" made them collectively guilty of [b][i][u]deicide[/u][/i][/b]. 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[i] intruders [/i]in most of the communities where they lived.
4. In medieval Europe, Jews were depicted as [b][i][u]"thieves and robbers." [/u][/i][/b] Martin Luther wrote in the 16th century:
[b]The position of Jews in Muslim Palestine since the early 20th century. [/b] 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 [b][i][u]genocide[/u][/i][/b] of Palestinians. The following text was posted on Islam.net
[i]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?[/i]
3. For Muslims in Palestine, Jews are outsiders or intruders.
4. Palestinians depict Jews as [b][i][u]land thieves. [/u][/i][/b] ________________________________
