If you've clicked this post from twitter, I insist that you read this article. Modern Jews can deal with any accusation except two: that their suffering is not of a unique level in the entirety of world history, and that they commit genocide, because, for incomprehensible reasons, the two accusations always seem to come as a pair. The line between 'other groups suffer the way Jews do' and 'Jews are the perpetrators of the worst evils' is so thin as to be non-extant. Once one sentiment is in the discourse, the other comes into the discourse right away - whether its 'genocide' or 'deicide' or 'death by racial pollution', it's the same accusation following the same patterns. I don't know why that is, I don't know if what provokes it is collective (or individual) mental illness or the incomprehensible forces of history or God himself. But when that outlook is lost, Jews die in large numbers. Full stop. I have listened to and read people I know accuse Jews of genocide too often, sometimes Jews themselves, to not call this the evil it is. You might as well call us Christ-killers.
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