Notes
- The critical mass of spoilers on all sides would ensure that even a two-state agreement would have little impact on what essentially remains an existential, zero-sum, to-the-death struggle.
- For an exhaustive analysis of this process, see Tomasz Kamusella, The Politics of Language and Nationalism in Modern Central Europe (New York, 2009).
- Various of her essays dealing with this theme can be found in Hannah Arendt, The Jewish Writings, Jerome Kahn and Ron H. Feldman (eds.) (New York, 2007).
- See the story spun by the French historian Jacques LeGoff in The Birth of Europe (Oxford, 2005).
- In this context, the EU's failure so far to grapple successfully with its financial troubles stems in part from the need to protect the creation myth that is Europe. The current difficulties do not reflect so much a financial crisis as an identity crisis caused by financial mismanagement.
- Ira Katznelson, “Regarding Toleration and Liberalism: Considerations from the Anglo-Jewish Experience,” Religion and the Political Imagination, Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones (eds.) (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 46–69.
- They also hold antiquated views of Jews as global financial puppet masters. The author was present at a lecture in 1995 in which the speaker, a leader in the movement to establish Holocaust museums, spoke of manipulating official East European assumptions that Jews and Jewish money ran US foreign policy. He claimed that he responded positively but obliquely to requests for access to alleged Jewish influence in Washington in exchange for permission to gain access to Jewish material in Polish archives and warehouses.
- Philosemitism among US Evangelical Christians is a very traditional, instrumentalist version of the phenomenon, as these Christians look to the Jewish return to the Holy Land to spur the Rapture or, perhaps, the second coming of Christ.