Beneath a riveting photograph depicting the forced deportation of Muslim refugees, your article debated the accuracy of the analogy to the Holocaust. According to the article, what is important in these events is whether they endanger the sacrosanct symbolic territory Jews claim for ourselves, of having endured the worst genocide in world history. Subsuming the atrocities happening at this moment in Bosnia to this peculiar form of Jewish pride is obscene. The idea that our sympathies should be contingent upon how well Jews were treated by the parents of the present victims and victimizers depends upon a racialist view of humanity. We are against rape, deportation, murder because these acts are evil, not because the victims or their ancestors were our friends.
Victimization grants no one moral superiority, nor is it always visited on saints.
Jews as much as anyone have lessons to learn from the shifting tides of history. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any form without permission.