Simon Roe’s Reviews > People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present > Status Update

I refuse to finish this book because the phantom trauma and self victimization revolts me. Would give zero stars and a terrible review if the butthurt zios wouldn’t come after me. Instead if I really want to hear about antisemitism I’ll read Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein or listen to Bad Hasbara or Matt Bernstein’s podcast ep abt the antisemitism panic, people who don’t use their own oppression to justify genocide.

“…My friend Cecilie Surasky, then one of the leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace, observed of these kinds of educational methods: ‘It's retraumatization, not remembering. There is a difference.’”
“…Though there were certainly exceptions, for the most part, the goal of this teaching was not to turn us into people who would fight the next genocide wherever it occurred. The goal was to turn us into Zionists.”