“Jews will not replace us!”
And so Jews in the United States follow in the footsteps of our German community who in the 1930’s, also declared their fatherland’s “exceptionality.” Denial describes a pattern feeding our own victim-hood. Memory is short and reinforced by current appearance and experience. Charlottesville for a moment symbolized Munich. And soon relative quiet returned, carrying with it a sense of “normalcy,” a return to somnolence.
So Vice President Biden, perhaps prophetically, may have anticipated the upsurge of white nationalism attendant with President Trump’s populist campaign for the White House. That Jews even now would ignore his warning, dismiss Charlottesville as just another and atypical up-tick in antisemitism: It is this that describes future Jewish victimhood: Jewish Denial.