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May 15, 2021Liked by John Ganz

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that ethnic nationalism is in any sense liberal or humanist. We will never be free of this delusion.

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The dominant ideology in Israel now is Revisionism, which in earlier days was happy to accept the friendship of Mussolini, leading (among other things) to my father's ruining a box of tea attempting to dye his Betar uniform shirt black. (Starvation nearly to death cured him of most of his right-wing politics, though there was always a little bit of Jabotinsky's "Iron Wall" lurking in the back of his mind.)

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