A widely attributed bon mot of the fifties had one Jew saying to another, “They’ll never forgive us for Auschwitz.” And the world has not. Massacred Jews and non-Jewish Israelis are caught on film, and the left either is spared the spectacle or treated to its explication, as in: “Palestinian anguish and despair has, unfortunately but understandably, led to this.” The most famous dramatic depictions of Jewish suffering have been a form of Holocaust porn. Anne Frank closes her diary saying, “I still believe people are basically good at heart.” What? And the fiddler’s Jews of Annatevka are told
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