January 18, 2024
The Explosion of Antisemitism Caught Israel Off Guard
By Alex Gordon
In the seventy-five years of the Jewish state's existence, Israelis have spent and continue to spend a great deal of time studying antisemitism. They believe that the establishment of the Jewish state is the ultimate defense of Israelis against antisemitism.
They characterize antisemitism as a distant past, as a solved problem. Perhaps that is why they were not prepared for the explosion of antisemitism, for the bloody pogrom on their territory on Oct. 7, 2023.
In 1967, the Israeli army's preemptive strike against the Arab armies showed, that at that time, on the eve of the Six Day War, Israel's leaders recognized the pogromic, anti-Jewish policies of their Arab enemies, murderous to the existence of the of the Jewish state and dangerous to Israeli life. Since then, many years have passed that have reassured the Israelis and instilled in them that their situation had improved to such an extent that preventive measures against antisemitic aggression are no longer necessary.
I don't know at what point the Israelis decided that no anti-Jewish pogroms in Israel were impossible, but it seems to me that the October 7 massacre was not only a political and military failure, but also the result of an unsuccessful attempt to prove that the Jewish history of pogroms is over, that the Israeli refuge for the Jewish people precludes the massacre of Jews.
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