The phenomenon of the absence of the Jewish people or
of the Jew from the “peace process”, or from reality altogether, is
largely an absence of representations. Does the Jewish people exist in the
representations of its literature, culture, and art in any way that is not
a mockery? Does the Jewish people exist in law, in representation through
judicial rulings, in society and in economic life, in a non-sectorial
media?
In actuality, there is no real Jewish people and it
has no spokesman. Thus the Jewish people has no right to
self-determination and no claim to sovereignty. And in fact, virtually no
one is seeking it or claiming it.
The Jewish people exists only in remembering the
Holocaust. It has become an “imaginary people”.
This problem forms the subject of the article, which
seeks to characterize the global mood that today is called postmodernism,
its manifestations, and its contribution to the deconstruction of the
concept of nationalism in general and of the Jewish people in particular.
Why does the Jew fear himself and flee from existence
to nonexistence? What are the contributions of technological metaphors
based on real inventions, which contribute their metaphors to the
destruction of identity? What harm is caused by the only partially
accurate expression “The medium is the message?” The article considers the
destruction of values, such as the concept of democracy, human dignity,
and so on; as well as the domination of the world by the “global
administration”. It points to phenomena of attrition and self-deception
that, instead of bolstering the national existence, weaken it, such as the
war against Holocaust denial and the harm that this causes. This war is a
psychological refuge from a new Holocaust, as if the non-denial of the
Holocaust that has already occurred could produce a defense against
anti-Semitism when the internal anti-Semitism is stronger than the
external kind.
The article deals with the damage to academic
discourse; the concepts of “imaginary”, “virtual imaginary communities”,
“discourse”, and “multiculturalism”, and counterpoises to them the need
for a renewal of the national essentiality, arguing in favor of the
building of the Temple and the establishment of the Sanhedrin.
