31 October 2010

Taking hostility seriously

Out of the Dreyfus Affair was born the Zionist movement "—the only political answer Jews have ever found to antisemitism and the only ideology in which they have ever taken seriously a hostility that would place them in the center of world events." (The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, 1994; page 120).

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