Holocaust inversion is a rhetorical strategy in which Jews are depicted as having become the new Nazis, while others, in this case the Palestinians, are cast as the new Jews.
The NEA is a jew hating organization. If only they were as concerned about teaching kids to read and do math. Now what may we conclude about those who support the NEA using dear Ann's analysis?
You still give in to the narrative. Yes you state that a people shouldn't be held collectively responsible for the actions of a few or one government which is correct. But you seem to concede that Netanyahu or Israel is committing evil and just asking that all Jews or even all Israelis not be blamed. The reality is that every claim against Israel is a lie. There is no deliberate starvation or indiscriminate bombing or "genocide" just as there was never apartheid. We cannot give in to the lie in any capacity.
Thanks for this essay. You are performing a valuable service by writing down that which should go without saying. It’s surreal to see a cartoonist projecting her lurid thesis, that Israelis are following in Hitler’s footsteps, whilst she is actively supporting political movements— including fighting forces and populations behind them—that openly revere Hitler, celebrate his legacy, and raise their children to believe he is a model to be respected and emulated. Her work is an inversion in deepest possible sense. I wonder what images she imagines when she gazes into a mirror.
Has anyone on Substack consolidated and published material drawing on the widespread public examples of explicit Nazi indoctrination that keeps Hitler’s legacy alive in the Middle East? It is inappropriate that this material, and the truth of it's popularity in many populations, has been so successfully suppressed in the West.
Great essays like this offer me a way to frame certain concepts in a cohesive manner. Calling out those who seek to demoralize us is a critical public service. Thank you!!!
Not surprised at this inversion attack on Israel. I have met people who say the Holocaust never happened which is why in 1945 General Eisenhower had film and photos taken of these concentration and death camps because he said one day there'd be people who'd say this never happened. When I showed someone the picture of that British NCO on a small bulldozer pushing piles of bodies into a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen he was unimpressed. Israel reacts the way it does because the alternative is another Shoah. Faced with this choice what would any other nation do, hmmm?
I wish everyone could read your wonderful essay!!!!!......you are absolutely right about the utterly perversity of the Holocaust inversion, specially after the atrocities of October 7th, 2023 perpetreded to inocent civilians......instead of being sympathetic to our beloved Israel, they sided with the terrorists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers!!!!!!.....
Excellent writing of the truth. My opinion still remains the same. Everyone looks at Israel from across the border and sees how a small country has built into a thriving land. They sit with their hands out expecting the world to hand them everything and cry why me. They don’t understand what it means to work or use your mind and it also scares them. They only know how to hate and how to make sure everyone else hears and hates. We are very strong proud people who help others. It’s pure jealousy on their end. Lots more but I believe it’s the main purpose of their being. If they were truly against us ; why do they even touch any food that gets to them and why do they copy our recipes etc?
That cartoonist is repulsive. When western nations fight wars and civilians are killed in far greater numbers including proportionally, it's referred to as "collateral damage". Suddenly and singularly with Israel's war against hamas, collateral damage has been reframed as "genocide". Truly sick. And then they try to tell us this blood libel doesn't amount to antisemitism. Israel Derangement Syndrome has watered down the definition of genocide into becoming essentially meaningless.
It drives Jew haters crazy that not only are Jews superior in just about every sphere of human endeavor (Jew haters are often bitter failures looking to destroy what they could never achieve), but on top of the positives, Jews are also History's true oppressed pariahs and the Holocaust has for decades placed them at the very top of the list of victims of bigotry and hatred—and don't forget how much victim and oppression points matter in the modern world, where the subaltern is sanctified and where "the last shall be first" is sacred dogma for Western liberals. Thus, the Jew haters have to not only demonize Israel, they also want to humiliate Jews by stripping away any moral status or credential they may have and any claims about their obvious need for self-determination. Jews must be transformed into Nazis in order to further strip them of dignity.
Ann Telnaes is just another gentry liberal and gentry liberals feed on cheap virtue just like downscale Americans feed on cheap calories—she knows transforming Jews into Nazis will signal that she's one of the compassionate Good People who absolutely adore Palestinian children and who agree with their kids that the Zionist entity is really Nazi Germany in drag and must be treated as such. Also, gentry liberals worship in the Church of Social Justice and Jews put the lie to the foundational dogma of the SJ faith: that an oppressed group needs special favors and preferences by a caste of enlightened white saviors in order to be liberated. Jews once again serve as the Christian scapegoat, let all their sins be piled on them (settler colonial apartheid genocide blah blah)—and still dominate in their fields.
Now that the Christian West (or at least its leaders and aristocrats) has converted en masse to the Social Justice faith, they are simply not going to allow Jews to oocupy the top spot on the historical-victim totem pole. That must be reserved for a more apt victim, one that they get to choose and one that's more pliant and pathetic. Once again, Jews are standing in the way of someone else's utopia and must be brought low. Gentry liberals like Ann Telnaes are smug cowardly conformists and just like they expect other people to clean up their messes, they expect other people to die for their sins.
The bludgeoning of Israel with appropriated Jewish trauma is a textbook case of Holocaust envy, a modern phenomenon in which the singular destruction of European Jewry is softened, relativized, and eventually rendered fungible through comparison to any number of tragic but fundamentally distinct events.
In the context of Israel and the Palestinians, it becomes a form of psychological revenge, a way to “get back” at the Jews if you’re pissed at them. As Israeli writer Shany Mor put it:
“Hauling the Jews in to plead their case before a special tribunal and face the charge that they are the real Nazis has been the fantasy of every antisemite since the first gavel hit a sound block at Nuremberg.”¹
Holocaust envy is not an accidental feature of anti-Israel rhetoric; it is essential to it. It reverses the Jews’ historical role from victims to villains, thereby erasing the moral justification for Jewish sovereignty, especially when one subscribes to the popular lie that Israel exists only because Jews were victims. Strip them of that victimhood, and the state can be morally liquidated.
The charge of genocide against Jews serves a second purpose: It soothes Western guilt. If the Jews are now the perpetrators, not the victims, one no longer has to wrestle with the memory of what one’s grandparents did, or failed to do, during the actual Holocaust.
…. And used by today’s Far Right and the Re-formed Nazi Party to justify the original Nazi Mass murder. I would also add that there were 50 million White people murdered by the Nazis. We were and are not alone.
I had not seen the Ann Teinaes cartoon. It made me feel physically sick.
This was not political humour of any kind - just pure evil Jew Hate
The fact that she had the arrogance to announce 'this is not antisemitism'
It is not for her to decide what it Jew hatred and what isn't
She must thought she was being so clever. Well she wasn't
It should have been rejected for publication
The NEA is a jew hating organization. If only they were as concerned about teaching kids to read and do math. Now what may we conclude about those who support the NEA using dear Ann's analysis?
You still give in to the narrative. Yes you state that a people shouldn't be held collectively responsible for the actions of a few or one government which is correct. But you seem to concede that Netanyahu or Israel is committing evil and just asking that all Jews or even all Israelis not be blamed. The reality is that every claim against Israel is a lie. There is no deliberate starvation or indiscriminate bombing or "genocide" just as there was never apartheid. We cannot give in to the lie in any capacity.
Thanks for this essay. You are performing a valuable service by writing down that which should go without saying. It’s surreal to see a cartoonist projecting her lurid thesis, that Israelis are following in Hitler’s footsteps, whilst she is actively supporting political movements— including fighting forces and populations behind them—that openly revere Hitler, celebrate his legacy, and raise their children to believe he is a model to be respected and emulated. Her work is an inversion in deepest possible sense. I wonder what images she imagines when she gazes into a mirror.
Has anyone on Substack consolidated and published material drawing on the widespread public examples of explicit Nazi indoctrination that keeps Hitler’s legacy alive in the Middle East? It is inappropriate that this material, and the truth of it's popularity in many populations, has been so successfully suppressed in the West.
Great essays like this offer me a way to frame certain concepts in a cohesive manner. Calling out those who seek to demoralize us is a critical public service. Thank you!!!
Not surprised at this inversion attack on Israel. I have met people who say the Holocaust never happened which is why in 1945 General Eisenhower had film and photos taken of these concentration and death camps because he said one day there'd be people who'd say this never happened. When I showed someone the picture of that British NCO on a small bulldozer pushing piles of bodies into a mass grave at Bergen-Belsen he was unimpressed. Israel reacts the way it does because the alternative is another Shoah. Faced with this choice what would any other nation do, hmmm?
I wish everyone could read your wonderful essay!!!!!......you are absolutely right about the utterly perversity of the Holocaust inversion, specially after the atrocities of October 7th, 2023 perpetreded to inocent civilians......instead of being sympathetic to our beloved Israel, they sided with the terrorists, murderers, rapists, kidnappers!!!!!!.....
Too bad Telnaes would never have the courage, decency or integrity to read this essay. And if she did, it would be way over her head.
Excellent writing of the truth. My opinion still remains the same. Everyone looks at Israel from across the border and sees how a small country has built into a thriving land. They sit with their hands out expecting the world to hand them everything and cry why me. They don’t understand what it means to work or use your mind and it also scares them. They only know how to hate and how to make sure everyone else hears and hates. We are very strong proud people who help others. It’s pure jealousy on their end. Lots more but I believe it’s the main purpose of their being. If they were truly against us ; why do they even touch any food that gets to them and why do they copy our recipes etc?
That cartoonist is repulsive. When western nations fight wars and civilians are killed in far greater numbers including proportionally, it's referred to as "collateral damage". Suddenly and singularly with Israel's war against hamas, collateral damage has been reframed as "genocide". Truly sick. And then they try to tell us this blood libel doesn't amount to antisemitism. Israel Derangement Syndrome has watered down the definition of genocide into becoming essentially meaningless.
It drives Jew haters crazy that not only are Jews superior in just about every sphere of human endeavor (Jew haters are often bitter failures looking to destroy what they could never achieve), but on top of the positives, Jews are also History's true oppressed pariahs and the Holocaust has for decades placed them at the very top of the list of victims of bigotry and hatred—and don't forget how much victim and oppression points matter in the modern world, where the subaltern is sanctified and where "the last shall be first" is sacred dogma for Western liberals. Thus, the Jew haters have to not only demonize Israel, they also want to humiliate Jews by stripping away any moral status or credential they may have and any claims about their obvious need for self-determination. Jews must be transformed into Nazis in order to further strip them of dignity.
Ann Telnaes is just another gentry liberal and gentry liberals feed on cheap virtue just like downscale Americans feed on cheap calories—she knows transforming Jews into Nazis will signal that she's one of the compassionate Good People who absolutely adore Palestinian children and who agree with their kids that the Zionist entity is really Nazi Germany in drag and must be treated as such. Also, gentry liberals worship in the Church of Social Justice and Jews put the lie to the foundational dogma of the SJ faith: that an oppressed group needs special favors and preferences by a caste of enlightened white saviors in order to be liberated. Jews once again serve as the Christian scapegoat, let all their sins be piled on them (settler colonial apartheid genocide blah blah)—and still dominate in their fields.
Now that the Christian West (or at least its leaders and aristocrats) has converted en masse to the Social Justice faith, they are simply not going to allow Jews to oocupy the top spot on the historical-victim totem pole. That must be reserved for a more apt victim, one that they get to choose and one that's more pliant and pathetic. Once again, Jews are standing in the way of someone else's utopia and must be brought low. Gentry liberals like Ann Telnaes are smug cowardly conformists and just like they expect other people to clean up their messes, they expect other people to die for their sins.
Blake Flayton, substack:
The bludgeoning of Israel with appropriated Jewish trauma is a textbook case of Holocaust envy, a modern phenomenon in which the singular destruction of European Jewry is softened, relativized, and eventually rendered fungible through comparison to any number of tragic but fundamentally distinct events.
In the context of Israel and the Palestinians, it becomes a form of psychological revenge, a way to “get back” at the Jews if you’re pissed at them. As Israeli writer Shany Mor put it:
“Hauling the Jews in to plead their case before a special tribunal and face the charge that they are the real Nazis has been the fantasy of every antisemite since the first gavel hit a sound block at Nuremberg.”¹
Holocaust envy is not an accidental feature of anti-Israel rhetoric; it is essential to it. It reverses the Jews’ historical role from victims to villains, thereby erasing the moral justification for Jewish sovereignty, especially when one subscribes to the popular lie that Israel exists only because Jews were victims. Strip them of that victimhood, and the state can be morally liquidated.
The charge of genocide against Jews serves a second purpose: It soothes Western guilt. If the Jews are now the perpetrators, not the victims, one no longer has to wrestle with the memory of what one’s grandparents did, or failed to do, during the actual Holocaust.
The caption said it all. Auschwitz was not a concentration camp, It was an extermination camp.
…. And used by today’s Far Right and the Re-formed Nazi Party to justify the original Nazi Mass murder. I would also add that there were 50 million White people murdered by the Nazis. We were and are not alone.