March 07, 2009

Zionist ideology of victimhood

Here's Anthony Lerman in today's Independent about the wild exaggeration of antisemitism:
A team led by Professor Daniel Bar Tal of Tel Aviv University, one of the world's leading political psychologists, questioned Israeli Jews about their memory of the conflict with the Arabs, from its inception to the present, and found that their "consciousness is characterised by a sense of victimisation, a siege mentality, blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanisation of the Palestinians and insensitivity to their suffering". The researchers found a close connection between that collective memory and the memory of "past persecutions of Jews" and the Holocaust, the feeling that "the whole world is against us". If such a study were to be conducted among Jews in Britain, I suspect the results would be very similar.
No doubt Mr Lerman will be getting the Engage treatment when Dr Hirsh is up and about and has read his emails.

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