The false diagnoses of “Jewish rage” and “Holocaust trauma” assume that all Jews think alike and act alike. Therefore, since some Jews were persecuted in the past, their descendants Today must be acting out some hidden psychological problem if they cry out or fight back.

The absurdity of that argument is evident from Israel’s demographic makeup. The Holocaust happened eighty years ago, primarily to European Jews. Most Israelis today are not old enough to be Holocaust survivors. And most of them are not children or grandchildren of Holocaust survivors—because their parents and grandparents did not come from Europe. The majority of Israelis are immigrants, or the descendants of immigrants, from Arab, African, and Near Eastern countries; their relatives were not gassed in Auschwitz.

[That’s a point that gets conveniently ignored, especially by those who insist that Jews “colonized” Israel. They did no such thing; Jews have lived in the region for millennia, and Mizrahi Jews make up a large portion of Israel’s population. I’ll have more on this in a podcast next week. — Ed]