Les frontières d'Auschwitz : les ravages du devoir de mémoire

Examines the "perverse logic" by which the obligation to remember the Shoah is used to vilify the Jews and Israel today. While France and Europe exalt in compassion for the victims of the Shoah, they suspect the Jews and Israel of instrumentalizing its memory and accuse them of having turned into perpetrators in the Middle East. Argues that Saint Paul's theological views of the "two bodies of Christ" form the ideological basis for the "doctrine" of the obligation to remember. It glorifies the abstract, suffering Jew, while defaming the real Jews and the Jewish people in the name of the mystical "body", which is displaced from them onto the Palestinians, the "new Israel". Argues that de Gaulle's condemnation of Israel in 1967 featured the main arguments used in today's attacks against Israel. The gist of them is that Jews must remain victims and not break out of the limits established by Auschwitz. Discusses the international rejection of Israel and Europe's decisive role in it. Europe's condemnation originates in formerly anti-democratic leftist circles and is an heir to communist anti-Zionism. Argues that the "doctrine" of the obligation to remember is used by post-communist Europe to solidify its identity. The "doctrine's" perverse logic, by which Israel is condemned, gives Europe the support of the Islamic world which it needs in its power struggle with the U.S. Includes bibliographical references. 250 pages ; 18 cm.