The Paradox of anti-Semitism


The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges.  The anti-Semite simply has to make them. ~ Jack Schwartz

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  1. From the opening chapter (I Decide to Write a Book) of Ben Hecht‘s A Guide for the Bedevilled:

    “I [his hostess “more famous than intelligent -which is one of the hazards of democracy”] would like to know how you explain the unpopularity of the Jews.”…She seemed to be asking me, as a Jew, to break down and confess something that would clear up the murder of the three million Jews of Europe…

    A Guide for the Bedevilled

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