Quoting Deborah Feldman: "Israel's problems today are a consequence of Nazi ideas, which contaminated Israeli ideology. Germany so poisoned the world with its ideas about superiority that this persists in Israel to this day. It angers me. I want Israel to free itself from this, I want Germany to free itself from this."
Feldman was born into the insular community of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic sect in New York. When her son was a toddler, she left her community with him, divorced her husband, and became secular. In 2014, she moved to #Berlin, refined her Yiddish into fluency in German, and according to the author, "quickly became a prominent intellectual in #Germany."
Who knew it could be so easy... anyway, Feldman did keep her anti-Zionist (or anti-Zionist State heritage).
In respect to Jewish life in Germany she says "It frightens me that because of the #Holocaust, n
... Show more...Quoting Deborah Feldman: "Israel's problems today are a consequence of Nazi ideas, which contaminated Israeli ideology. Germany so poisoned the world with its ideas about superiority that this persists in Israel to this day. It angers me. I want Israel to free itself from this, I want Germany to free itself from this."
Feldman was born into the insular community of the ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic sect in New York. When her son was a toddler, she left her community with him, divorced her husband, and became secular. In 2014, she moved to #Berlin, refined her Yiddish into fluency in German, and according to the author, "quickly became a prominent intellectual in #Germany."
Who knew it could be so easy... anyway, Feldman did keep her anti-Zionist (or anti-Zionist State heritage).
In respect to Jewish life in Germany she says "It frightens me that because of the #Holocaust, neo-Nazis in Germany have legitimacy to hold racist and anti-Muslim positions [...] Very quickly this could include Jews as well."
Her fears and those of many other Germans intensified when the far-right #AfD party received the most votes in two regions in local elections. Analysis of the data shows that many young people voted for them, apparently free from the burdens of their grandparents' past.
[...] "In Germany, there are about seven million Muslims and around 250,000 Jews, but the hierarchy between them is clear. Jews are more important. Even liberal Germans are blind to this situation. They see the special rights of Jews in Germany as something progressive."
[...] One of the violent responses towards her came from a German-Jewish journalist named Daniel Killy, who wrote that he had a fantasy of Feldman being kidnapped in Gaza. Feldman did not stay silent. "Only in Germany is it permissible for a descendant of Nazis to wish deadly violence upon a Jewish woman, as long as he is a friend of Netanyahu," she wrote.
[...] Killy later explained that his words were misunderstood and said he didn't mean it that way. He sued her for defamation, claiming that it's forbidden to call him a "descendant of Nazis" since he is Jewish. In her defense statement, Feldman explained that this is not a contradiction, as his grandfather was a "second-degree" Nazi, meaning a Jew in a high position who decided the fate of other Jews. "I successfully argued in court that one can be both Jewish and a Nazi," Feldman told #Haaretz Magazine in a video interview from her home in Berlin. Killy eventually withdrew his defamation lawsuit.
Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/2024-09-12/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/00000191-e15d-d00e-afb3-e1ff8fcb0000 or https://archive.ph/fTAo3
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