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Anti-Semitism has been ascribed to many factors over the millennia, but the one with most purchase in our sophisticated age is simply that many people need an “other” to explain their failures and disappointments, for it stills the restive unconscious mind to project one’s deficiencies on others (“‘Hitler was right’: lurid bigotry of Steve West, Republican primary winner in Missouri, is revealed”, August 10).
Jews, from their earliest coherence as a distinct people, were decidedly an other. From the historical perspective, it is apparent that Jews delighted in their distinctiveness, never intuiting that the degree of difference would lead directly to a genocidal coefficient of hatred, one with which we deal to this day.
Polish official accuses Jews of ‘passivity’ during Holocaust
Should Jews blame themselves for donning a bullseye of bias by being different? The anti-Semite will find cover in that canard, but he will be alone.
Paul Bloustein, Ohio


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Jews from Israel and around the world participating in the annual “March of the Living” to commemorate the Holocaust victims walk through a barbed wire fence in the former German Nazi death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Poland on April 24, 2017. Photo: AP

Jeremy Corbyn says sorry for Labour's ‘real’ anti-Semitism problem

The opposition leader made his second attempt in three days to allay concerns of British Jews

Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn in London last month. Photo: AFP

Pressure mounts on Poland to pull Holocaust bill as anti-Semitism grows

Visitors to the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews look at exhibits from the second world war. Poland and Israel are locked in a bitter dispute over Poland's new legislation that regulates Holocaust speech. Photo: AP

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki places a candle at a memorial wall with names of some of the Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust, at the Ulma Family Museum of Poles Who Saved Jews during WWII, in Markowa, Poland, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Poland and Israel are locked in a bitter dispute over Poland's new legislation that is to regulate Holocaust speech. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 27, 1944 taken in Oswiecim, Poland, shows Jews alighting from a train in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Poland's senate on February 1, 2018 passed a controversial Holocaust bill, which was designed to defend the country's image abroad but has instead sparked a diplomatic row with Israel. The bill, which sets fines or a maximum three-year jail term for anyone who refers to Nazi German death camps as Polish or accuses Poland of complicity in the Third Reich's crimes, was approved by 57 votes to 23 in the upper house of parliament. / AFP PHOTO / Yad Vashem Archives / -

Elyakim Rubinstein, former deputy presdient of Israel's Supreme Court, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. Rubinstein voiced his opposition to pending Polish legislation that foresees penalties of up to three years in prison for false and public statements that Poland played a role in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits on January 2, 2018 the Ulma Family Museum that is documenting the fate of the Polish Ulma family, killed in March 1944 by Nazi Germans for rescueing Jews during the Holocaust, in the village of Markowa, southeastern Poland. Morawiecki’s visit comes after the right-wing dominated Polish parliament passed a bill designed to defend the country's image abroad by criminalising the erroneous phrase "Polish death camps" has backfired, sparking an unprecedented diplomatic row with Israel and sharp criticism from the US and the global Jewish community. / AFP PHOTO / JANEK SKARZYNSKI

FILE - Photo shows view of section of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp on Feb. 6, 1961 in Oswiecim, Poland. Poland's Senate has backed legislation regulating Holocaust speech, calling for up to three years in prison for any intentional attempt to falsely attribute the crimes of Nazi Germany to the Polish state or people. (AP Photo)

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