Zionists have no problem with boycotts…
May 11, 2019 § 1 Comment
What brought about her boycott in Israel was her interpretation of Eichmann and her characterization of the victims of the Shoah.
Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
What is so difficult to accept about Arendt’s hypothesis of the “banality of evil” – and what generated opposition to the book in Israel – is that she was positing here a new type of conscience. Contrary to the judgment handed down in the trial, Arendt did not believe that Eichmann needed to “close his ears to the voice of conscience,” or that he lacked a conscience altogether, but that the voice of conscience of “respectable” German society did not tell him that he should feel guilty for his deeds.