Reply To: Anti-Semitism refuted by Non-Jewish Philosopher

“Since the Jew is dependent upon opinion for his profession, his rights, and his life, his situation is completely unstable. Legally not open to attack, he is at the mercy of the whims and passions of the ‘real’ society.

He [the Jew] carefully watches the progress of anti-Semitism; he tries to foresee crises and gauge trends in the same way that the peasant keeps watch on the weather and predicts storms.

He ceaselessly calculates the effects that external events will have on his own position. He may accumulate legal guarantees, riches, honors; he is only the more vulnerable on that account, and he knows it.

Thus it seems to him that at one and the same time that his efforts are always crowned with success — for he knows the astonishing successes of his race — and that a curse has made them empty, for he will never acquire the security enjoyed by the most humble Christian.”

SOURCE: Anti-Semite and Jew (chapter 3, page 87) by Jean-Paul Sartre in year 1944, translated from French to English by George J. Becker, published by Schocken Books in NYC in year 1995, distributed by Pantheon Books, ISBN 0805210474

PERSONAL COMMENT:
This helps to explain why Jews need their own state.
The anti-Zionists do not understand that their hatred of the Zionists does not accomplish any good, and only makes things worse, by increasing hate among Jews.