Thread by @GREENESJ333

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Misdirected Jewish Nostalgia or something else.

Or maybe it is an intentional effort to forget the facts and embellish what seems to give a sense of safety that realistically was never there.
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Article after article has appeared in recent years, about the loss of Jewish life in Europe that existed before the Holocaust, regretting that loss, embellishing what really was. Story after story by people who talk about how their families were all so wealthy and
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did great things, and how it all stopped because of the Nazis and the war. Forgotten is the masses of Jews who lived in abject poverty in most of Europe’s cities and in rural areas as well, the discrimination, the limits on what schools to attend, what jobs one could do,
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what professions one could study for, without fully assimilating and even converting to Christianity formally or at least appearing to have dropped all Jewishness from one's life.
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I used to know a number of German Jews in Haifa who raised their kids on stories about how wonderful Germany was and how they regretted having to go to Israel. My wife was raised on stories about how wonderful her mother’s parents lived in Vienna,
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only to find out years later that they lived on the 4th floor of a building, sharing bathroom facilities with a neighbor, living in two rooms without hot water, for two adults and three children.
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The Israeli secular left always complains about things being limited on Shabbat, claiming loudly about the “control by the Rabbis” of the government that prevents what they claim all modern countries have.
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Some even complain that they cannot stand living in a theocracy and would rather move to Europe. And then the same people go to Europe and never complain about Sunday business and shop closures, about business contracts ending with “In the Year of our Lord….”
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because every European nation has limits on Sunday business and businesses being open on various Christian holidays. Just as in Israel with its laws regulating Shabbat business activity, special permits are needed to open a business on a Sunday in most European states.
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In fact, a higher percentage of business activity is open in Israel on Shabbat today than on Sunday in much of Europe.

So, are the secular-left Jews in Israel simply ignorant of what is done elsewhere?
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Or is it that they accept restrictions uncomplainingly when it comes to Christian nations as normal and OK, but when it happens in a Jewish state, they can’t tolerate it? If that is true, then one can conclude that they are just adhering to an anti-Jewish double standard.
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Sounds sick—because it is.

Unconscious antisemitism among secular Jews? Or is it some sort of psychosis that affects Jewish life, adaptations to 2,000 years of persecution that now distort life in the Jewish Republic."
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