Der neue Antisemitismus

As both a political and Jewish victim, I cannot remain silent when the old miserable anti-Semitism reemerges under the banner of anti-Zionism. Jean Améry. A classic of the future, Jürg Altwegg, FAZ. One should not and cannot let the past rest, for otherwise it could resurrect and become a new present. Jean Améry. Jean Améry's essays, written between 1969 and 1976, are strikingly relevant. They read with such precision that they seem to have been written for today. Drawing from his Jewish identity, which was imposed on him by the Nuremberg Laws, Jean Améry describes his existential bond to Israel; however, his solidarity is not unconditional. Yet for him, Israel is the land that has taught all disenfranchised Jews of the world to stand tall. Here, his pain speaks, as he, having always been a leftist, can no longer connect with the New Left, which views Israel as colonialist: Their self-righteous anti-Zionism is clearly to him an inextricable form of anti-Semitism.