The new German chauvinism (Part I): From the Holocaust to ‘Israel-solidarity’

First published at LeftEast.One wants to break free of the past: rightly, because nothing at all can live in its shadow, and because there will be no end to the terror as long as guilt and violence are repaid with guilt and violence; wrongly, because the past that one would like to evade is still very much alive. — Theodor W. Adorno