I largely agree with you that Jew haters are not ignorant, they are mentally ill. However there is a large contingent of people that have turned hostile to Israel and therefore Jews who are not the kind of gleeful haters you are referring to.. The reason for their hostility is not ignorance. It is deliberate relentless dissemination of false propaganda in media, online and in the universities. Any efforts to counter this has to confront this reality. I have no idea how it can be countered effectively but promoting Holocaust education is useless as you note. The AJC initiative could have been a parody written by AI of how to spend hundreds of dollars and accomplish exactly nothing.
To begin here, I, too, myself must note how often I have been astonished to see Jews—or their supporters—continue to argue endlessly, even when it has long been obvious that their intended audience is completely entrenched in their views and consumed by hatred—and that this is nothing new.
When I meet jew hate and antisemitism, "naturally" all that flows from me is horror, rage, and hatred; however, arguments—specifically the calling out of obvious nonsense and glaring ignorance (i.e. "education")—along with humor, can indeed sometimes help to baffle the simpletons.
But after all, fascism and communism have always been impervious to reason and driven solely by hate.
However, the so-called "coming to terms with the past" ("Vergangenheitsbewältigung") largely glossed over this reality, acting as if future catastrophes could be averted simply by upholding an abstract, detached ethos of "remembering," "commemorating," and "issuing warnings".
You cannot "learn from the past" when you refuse to understand in which ways those abysses of hate came to surface - and not if you are estranged by hate and have no connection to it.
In other words: "Education" itself often turns out be not futile (enough); rather, decisive often is the content and the manner in which that content is presented—that is decisive.
But as you rightly reject that kind of "false" education, your article, in fact, serves just as an excellent example of demonstrating what the `RIGHT´ forms of "education" and "intellectual formation" *should* look like and *can* do — both in terms of substance and attitude.
They must be congruent with reality, with"truth"—with the world as it actually is—rather than being detached from human emotion, including that much-maligned and facilely condemned emotion: "hate."
If something *is* truly hateful, why should one not be permitted to hate it?
What is this issue the "bourgeois" has with hate ?
The indiscriminate rejection of "hate"—a stance often entirely divorced from both genuine education and reality—points, for instance, to an unnecessary self-limitation and self-flagellation within the realm of education.
It reflects a mindset that pretends hate is merely the domain of the uneducated and can never, under any circumstances, be justified.
True education must concern itself with what is *right*—not with mere "posturing," not with hollow platitudes of "proper conduct," and certainly not with ideology.
After all, a vast majority of Ivy League students hail from wealthy "left-wing"—or "semi-left-wing"—families.
For decades, it has been customary within these circles to indulge their children in the verbal rejection of "the elite," "education" - which has always ever been praisedly and rightly so associated with Jewish religion and culture - and "wealth"—thereby allowing them to affix to themselves the "unique selling points" = hollow attitude of a supposedly "critical consciousness," all while rejecting the very cocoon of privilege in which they themselves sit, comfortably and fatly ensconced.
There can be no talk of "education" here whatsoever, as it amounts to nothing more than the repetition and ostentatious display of phrases internalized since childhood.
They air out and regurgitate what they were taught in their childhood homes from an early age; there is not a single shred of genuine (self-)critical thinking involved—which would, after all, be the ironclad prerequisite for true education.
They cannot bring themselves to abandon this *habitus*, for doing so would pull the entire deceitful foundation of their lives out from under their feet—and the same applies to the "academic" windbags cited here, who, were they to combat the hateful "new" antisemites, would effectively have to combat their own way of life as well...
In other words: their "mental illness" supports their existence and "way of life".
They would have to recognize and cast aside their repression of genuine, unvarnished emotions; that would constitute the foundation and prerequisite for true resistance and for effectively combating the perverse "sentiments" of those who hate Jews.
Showing your own emotion might leave impression to those who seem to know nothing but unexamined, unfiltered emotions.
In doing so, one need not forgo "education"—but would merely have to recognize and shed its own deceitfulness and conditioned mindset in order to find right, effective answers.
I largely agree with you that Jew haters are not ignorant, they are mentally ill. However there is a large contingent of people that have turned hostile to Israel and therefore Jews who are not the kind of gleeful haters you are referring to.. The reason for their hostility is not ignorance. It is deliberate relentless dissemination of false propaganda in media, online and in the universities. Any efforts to counter this has to confront this reality. I have no idea how it can be countered effectively but promoting Holocaust education is useless as you note. The AJC initiative could have been a parody written by AI of how to spend hundreds of dollars and accomplish exactly nothing.
Not quite sure how AJC’s “Lab” is going to deal with this:
https://honestreporting.com/can-aps-new-jerusalem-news-director-deliver-fair-coverage-of-israel/
To begin here, I, too, myself must note how often I have been astonished to see Jews—or their supporters—continue to argue endlessly, even when it has long been obvious that their intended audience is completely entrenched in their views and consumed by hatred—and that this is nothing new.
When I meet jew hate and antisemitism, "naturally" all that flows from me is horror, rage, and hatred; however, arguments—specifically the calling out of obvious nonsense and glaring ignorance (i.e. "education")—along with humor, can indeed sometimes help to baffle the simpletons.
But after all, fascism and communism have always been impervious to reason and driven solely by hate.
However, the so-called "coming to terms with the past" ("Vergangenheitsbewältigung") largely glossed over this reality, acting as if future catastrophes could be averted simply by upholding an abstract, detached ethos of "remembering," "commemorating," and "issuing warnings".
You cannot "learn from the past" when you refuse to understand in which ways those abysses of hate came to surface - and not if you are estranged by hate and have no connection to it.
In other words: "Education" itself often turns out be not futile (enough); rather, decisive often is the content and the manner in which that content is presented—that is decisive.
But as you rightly reject that kind of "false" education, your article, in fact, serves just as an excellent example of demonstrating what the `RIGHT´ forms of "education" and "intellectual formation" *should* look like and *can* do — both in terms of substance and attitude.
They must be congruent with reality, with"truth"—with the world as it actually is—rather than being detached from human emotion, including that much-maligned and facilely condemned emotion: "hate."
If something *is* truly hateful, why should one not be permitted to hate it?
What is this issue the "bourgeois" has with hate ?
The indiscriminate rejection of "hate"—a stance often entirely divorced from both genuine education and reality—points, for instance, to an unnecessary self-limitation and self-flagellation within the realm of education.
It reflects a mindset that pretends hate is merely the domain of the uneducated and can never, under any circumstances, be justified.
True education must concern itself with what is *right*—not with mere "posturing," not with hollow platitudes of "proper conduct," and certainly not with ideology.
After all, a vast majority of Ivy League students hail from wealthy "left-wing"—or "semi-left-wing"—families.
For decades, it has been customary within these circles to indulge their children in the verbal rejection of "the elite," "education" - which has always ever been praisedly and rightly so associated with Jewish religion and culture - and "wealth"—thereby allowing them to affix to themselves the "unique selling points" = hollow attitude of a supposedly "critical consciousness," all while rejecting the very cocoon of privilege in which they themselves sit, comfortably and fatly ensconced.
There can be no talk of "education" here whatsoever, as it amounts to nothing more than the repetition and ostentatious display of phrases internalized since childhood.
They air out and regurgitate what they were taught in their childhood homes from an early age; there is not a single shred of genuine (self-)critical thinking involved—which would, after all, be the ironclad prerequisite for true education.
They cannot bring themselves to abandon this *habitus*, for doing so would pull the entire deceitful foundation of their lives out from under their feet—and the same applies to the "academic" windbags cited here, who, were they to combat the hateful "new" antisemites, would effectively have to combat their own way of life as well...
In other words: their "mental illness" supports their existence and "way of life".
They would have to recognize and cast aside their repression of genuine, unvarnished emotions; that would constitute the foundation and prerequisite for true resistance and for effectively combating the perverse "sentiments" of those who hate Jews.
Showing your own emotion might leave impression to those who seem to know nothing but unexamined, unfiltered emotions.
In doing so, one need not forgo "education"—but would merely have to recognize and shed its own deceitfulness and conditioned mindset in order to find right, effective answers.