One can still hear this Arendtian shame about ethnicity these days. So parochial! One can hear the echo of Arendt's fear of being judged as "merely Jewish" in some, not all, of those Jews so eager to dissociate themselves from the parochial concerns of other Jews for Israel. The desire for universalist approval makes them so disdainful of any "ethnic" fellow feeling. After all, to such unfettered spirits, it's so banal.

Hmmm, somebody's got a helluva matza on their shoulder. I guess if you think Palestinians have the same rights as other human beings, you're just a step or two away from Holocaust denial and brownshirting. So, evil is not banal because Eichman was a real motherfucker. Makes perfect sense. Call Karl Rove and Scooter Libby and tell them they're off the hook. They are as banal as they come, so they must therefore not be evil.

With anti-anti-semites like these, who needs Nazis?