On Not Being among Friends: Some Observations on the Political Mind Seminar “Psychoanalysis and Palestine-Israel: Further Thoughts,” July 7, 2020

Abstract

universalism serves to veil the history of Jews in Europe. This fulfils a very useful historically ‘cleansing’ dual function: the violence historically perpetrated by Europeans on Jews is erased; at the same time the horrors of European colonialism now become attributed to the Jews.” 87 There is an excellent discussion of the question of Zionism and colonialism in Ethan Katz, Lisa Leff, and Maud Mandel, eds., Colonialism and the Jews (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017), 275–340. See also: Sternhell, “Liberal