POL345Y1 Lecture Notes - Yerida, Jewish Diaspora, Tough Love
Document Summary
Office hours open week after: prof gone for one year. Israel schizophrenic personality: we cannot live with it, we cannot live without it, paradox, needed and seeking legitimacy and empathy while simultaneously discounting the world, biblical notion. Israel shall dwell alone and not with others: what it means to be israeli in globalized world. Israeli identity pull toward future, for global practices, desire to be hebrew. What is the source of israel"s mistrust of the world: holocaust, a history of repression. Deep sense of insecurity: 135a. d jews were defeated thrown out of palestine and throne in to rome, defending themselves by enclosing in these communities, self-fulfilling prophecy, of being the victim, abnormality. Israeli"s like an abnormal life, nothing is normal. They are glad, they are abnormal: solution to abnormality, reconciliation, anti-semitism. Christian religious attack on jewfish: 95% of israeli see holocaust as first part of their identity. The ability to play the victimhood card is hard.
