Good article here. Canât copy paste all of it, someone else might.
Where Judaism is messy and contested, she writes, Germans demand order and insist that Jews âexist purely from a German position ⌠as a German projectionâ.
âJews in Germany are a uniform idea,â she says over lunch in Berlin, âbut as soon as we become pluralistic, we disrupt the idea of Jewishness to which Germans are very attached, an idea deeply influenced by anti-Semitic tropes and references.â
Such scepticism of Germansâ opinions are commonplace among many Jews here. Feldman goes further, however, by linking this to postwar German-Israel ties which she views as a transactional, exoneration-loyalty complex.
Pankaj Mishra is a very (to my mind at least) important writer. Heâs produced a quite stunning piece about Gaza â The Shoah after Gazaâ.
Itâs very considered, intelligent writing, meticulously researched and enlightening. This is a long essay ( an hourâs reading). Well worth the time investment, I doubt youâll find better on the subject of this genocide.
