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| Adam Lee |
Theists believe God is the source of all morality and goodness in the world. Naturally, that’s the team you’d want to be on. However, there’s a dark side to this aspiration. If you’re on God’s side, what about the people who disagree with you?
That’s the dark implication lurking underneath this column by American playwright David Mamet about the Israel-Hamas war and the cause of antisemitism.
That’s the dark implication lurking underneath this column by American playwright David Mamet about the Israel-Hamas war and the cause of antisemitism.
“That’s why we have armies”
Mamet says that Jewish people are wasting their time by trying to assimilate, or by touting the achievements of prominent Jews, or by voting for liberal and tolerant politicians. According to him, gentiles will always be hateful and prejudiced, no matter what Jews do to seek their approval:
The assimilated Jewish worship of Good Works and Right Thinking has been requited, for 2,000 years, by our slaughter. Implicit in our murderers’ worldview was the belief that “you can fool yourselves, but you can’t fool us”. For the Jew Haters were and are neither interested in our “accomplishments” nor outraged by our supposed misdeeds—but only interested in killing us.“The self-delusion of secular Jews.” David Mamet, Unherd, 7 December 2023.
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