Are Jews Who Fear Iran Obsessed With the Holocaust?
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Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Bringing up the subject of theHolocaust at a dinner party can be a downer. Genocide is anunpleasant and apparently insoluble problem, and, when Jewsraise it, they run the risk of seeming parochial, evennarcissistic.
Sophisticated, cosmopolitan people don’t want to be thoughtof as “Holocaust-obsessed,” and applying the lessons of theHolocaust to current events -- particularly those that have todo with the special concerns of Jews, and not Kurds or Tutsis orTibetans -- is sometimes understood as a form of distastefulspecial-pleading. “Holocaust-obsessed” is, in fact, a newinsult, one meant to sting and to bully into silence.