Only few expressions of solidarity with the #Jewish community in #Manchester tonight on #Mastodon . Otherwise, there is a great #silence on the subject, but a lot of #excitement about other matters in which no one died and no one was seriously injured. Surely a sign that #antisemitism is becoming increasingly normalized.
Rich Stein (he/him)
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"People didn’t stop hating #Jews after 1945, but they found there was an electoral penalty for boasting about it. The loud, proud style of #antisemitism was banished from the mainstream.
Mazower’s #book contains many such distinctions – subtle twists of the lens that bring different shades of personal and ideological animus into focus. The underlying thesis is not controversial, at least not as #historiography. Medieval massacres, Tsarist pogroms, industrialised slaughter by Nazis, Soviet persecutions and terrorist attacks on Israel all belong to a single category to the extent that Jews are identified as the victims. But they are also functions of diverse economic, religious and political contexts that, from the #historian’s perspective, defy being summed up by a single word."
