What’s wrong with this picture that I’m not attacking Whipsnade’s argument? He’s got a point. Is the author implying that anti-semitism is a force of nature, and therefore part of the fabric of the universe–and hence there is no solution for Jews other than to take the Holocausts and pogroms?
Or in the previous article, tracing the history of anti-semitic thought, back through Europe–and if you do that you can’t avoid the anti-semitism in the Christian world, it happened–then again, is the author implying anti-semitism part of the human DNA, that evil itself is a part of the human DNA? Again, the Jews have no choice but to take it and move on. After all, we Jews can’t go around reading the depths of each person’s soul and biology and act as judge, jury, and executioner–that’s not Jewish.
But this deer-in-the-headlights response isn’t Jewish either. So the author has journeyed into a no-man’s land of understanding, no way out. Does Solway really believe that? Or are we waiting for part III?
