Anti-Judaism Quotes

“11 It is my sense—and I do not insist that you agree—that at this particular moment, and on these particular questions, the peril of fantasizing our freedom from the past is great. The “critical thinkers” of our present age increasingly reject the possibility that history can tell us anything vital about many of the questions that seem most pressing to us. Particularly on the questions with which this book is concerned, many see the mere invocation of the past as a symptom of special pleading (as, for example, when histories of anti-Semitism or the Holocaust are invoked to silence criticism of the State of Israel).”
― David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition

“The Revolution that began in France in 1789 sought to cast off all chains of faith and custom, marching into Paris with promises of freedom and the radical improvement of the world through reason. Yet many resisted this promise, or proclaimed it false. Unchecked by faith, they prophesied, reason would prove a more terrible tyrant than God, pitilessly reducing every soul to self-interested calculation and utility, and destroying the possibility of community based on love of God, of neighbor, or of any higher good.”
― David Nirenberg, Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition