With the terrible pogrom that took place in my hometown, Amsterdam, and the ongoing antisemitism in Europe, the United States, and indeed worldwide, it is time to give proper attention to one of the great mistakes of modern Jewish history. This is the myth that if Jews would only “normalize” themselves, antisemitism would come to an end; that when Jews would have their own homeland, a government and army, live their lives like all the other citizens of this world, and do away with their strange customs, they would then live in peace with their neighbors.
This constantly repeated mantra has proven to be entirely wrong and, in fact, dangerous.
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