Will the social cues of "polite" Israel hate survive Passover 2024?
From my Times of Israel blog
Sharing a blog I wrote at the Times of Israel:
Will the social cues of "polite" Israel hate survive Passover 2024?
Image: Hans Jordaens’s Moses parting the Red Sea. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Jordaens_(III)_-_Moses_parting_the_Red_Sea.jpg
I think you're right here and elsewhere to talk about "the pleasures of Jew hate". So much of the discussion of Jew hate talks about deep underlying issues that it ignores the basic fact that hating Jews can be pleasurable.
Actually, while I have a lot of problems with the Social Justice Theory approach to injustice, it strikes me that the same problem is found there too. It's so focused on systemic/structural issues and a Foucauldian view of society as a matrix of power relationships that it ignores the basic fact that people are racist, misogynist, homophobic (etc.) because those things can be pleasurable, at least to some people.