"Beinart hopes that the Jewish community can 'challenge the moral catastrophe that has happened' while also acknowledging how 'Judaism was swallowed by ethno-nationalism.'
'If you worship states, terrible things happen,' Beinart said."
#Israel #Jews #Palestine #Gaza #antisemitism #Islamophobia #victimhood #nationalism #Zionism
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Mehdi Hasan talks with Peter Beinart, author of the just-published Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning.
"In the book, Beinart calls on the Jewish community to abandon a long-held narrative of persecution and victimhood in the wake of Oct. 7 and Israel’s war on Gaza. He urges Jews to tell a new story, one that recognizes victims can also be victimizers."
#Israel #Jews #Palestine #Gaza #antisemitism #Islamophobia #victimhood #nationalism #Zionism
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3. Fixation with perceived #national #decline, #humiliation, or victimhood.
– The Trump platform is fixated on national decline and #victimhood. Elon agrees and has made comments about how #China has better workers than the US, etc. #MAGA as a slogan is focused on this point.
Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood: 
"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov
JD Vance is a rightwing troll disguised as a populist, and
could be our next vice-president
J.D. got the nod from Don, not just for sycophancy, but for clear and present authoritarian tendencies
The junior senator from Ohio had a massive advantage that made him more similar to Trump than any other contender:
a presence in popular culture, created by "Hillbilly Elegy,"
the memoir to which both conservatives and liberals dumbfounded by Trump’s triumph turned eagerly to understand why the “left behind” were opting for rightwing populism.
People think they know Vance, because they know his narrative:
growing up in poverty in Appalachia and making it to Yale Law School and Silicon Valley,
only to then turn into "political champion of blue-collar folks."
Vance perfected what, on the right, tends to substitute for policy ideas these days:
trolling the liberals.
Mobilizing voters is less about programs, or a real legislative record (Vance has none).
Rather, it’s generating political energy by deepening people’s sense of shared #victimhood.
No one but J.D. would try to schmooze voters with an invocation of the Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt -- who, in the 1930s, claimed that liberals were either weaklings or prone to betray their own ideals.
(Schmitt is an obscure reference to most outside the hallowed halls of Yale Law School, but a signal to cognoscenti that Vance is all in on antiliberalism.)
As with so many self-declared rightwing champions of the working class, economics isn’t ultimately where the action is;
“elite campuses” feature much more in an increasingly feverish Maga imagination.
Vance has declared universities the enemy
and asserted that “the closest that conservatives have ever gotten to successfully dealing with leftwing domination of universities is Viktor Orbán’s approach in Hungary”.
The reality is that Orbán has simply shut down entire academic subjects which conservatives don’t like – no more gender studies – and handed over Hungarian universities to cronies;
he also managed to chase out the country’s best school, Central European University.
When pressed, Vance re-describes his Orbánism as giving taxpayers a say in how their dollars are spent in education
– a startling admission that politicians should be in control,
and of course a blatant contradiction with the free speech pieties Vance’s allies in Congress have become so good at weaponizing.
How the hillbillies of Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy will benefit from removing Judith Butler from reading lists at Harvard is anyone’s guess.
@danwentzel I'd not be surprised if this would turn out as a "#FalseFlag" desired by #Trump or his main donors to claim #victimhood, orojecting their desire to commit #murder onto #Biden.
Or Biden would've uncovered Trump as the #Russian & #Chinese #Asset he's been even before 2016 and delivered evidence of him colluding to commit #HighTreason again as per "#Project2025"...
It ain't easy bein' a nazi...
#Victimhood
Of course, the promise of #revenge was not realized, and the expectant longing was not satisfied. The #Arabs were quickly routed, and almost all of the #Jews survived.
Then, however, despite the eagerness to fight, the incitement to war, and the euphoria at the prospect, this defeat was reconceived 
not simply as a story of loss but once again into a story of #victimhood.
The pre-war fantasies were forgotten.
What’s astonishing is that a war that was embarked on so willingly, with so much unanimity, and with so much excitement could be later remembered as a story of pure #victimhood
Yet before the war was even fully over, Constantin #Zureiq published a passionate #lament of the #Arab failure to defeat #Israel, The Meaning of the Disaster [#Nakba], giving birth to the word that would be used from as a shorthand for the traumatic #Arab defeat in that war.
A book for our times: The Age of Grievance
by #FrankBruni.
“The twists and turns of American #politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It’s one of #grievance.
More and more Americans are convinced that they’re losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it.
The #Blame game has become the country’s most popular sport and #Victimhood its most fashionable garb.”
#politicalwire
https://politicalwire.com/2024/03/28/the-age-of-grievance/
So now, fresh frm the news of his death, Trump's comparing himself to #Navalny.
He's also compared himself to #Jesus.
What a jackass. Trump's just a professional victim & whiner. Whatever happened to the #GOP disdain for #victimhood?
Gone the same way as all the rest of their supposed principles.
Sold out cheap.
59/ Back to Klasfeld:
Trump, to the AG's counsel Kevin Wallace:
"People like you go around to try to demean me, and try to hurt me." 
#victimhood
Wallace tells the judge he won't move to strike because he has a lot of ground to cover.
After Trump repeats his talking points about the disclaimer clause, Wallace tells him he already said that.
"I'm trying to make you understand it," Trump replies. [Me--Narrator: The prosecutors understand it all too well, Defendant Trump]
Mechanic 
