{"id":284,"date":"2006-10-14T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-15T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2006-10-14T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T03:44:00","slug":"hannah-arendt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/hannah-arendt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Arendt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/3504\/1589\/1600\/arandt.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 137px; height: 191px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/3504\/1589\/400\/arandt.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a>Hannah Arendt would have been one hundred today.  Strange how her work still upsets people even this late after her death: in today&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tageszeitung<\/span>, the Israeli historian Idith Zertal (cf. for example her book <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/books\/pages\/8285.html\">From <span>Catastrophe to Power<\/span><\/a>)  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taz.de\/pt\/2006\/10\/14\/a0145.1\/text\">tells<\/a> of how much Arendt is hated even today in Israel \u2014 where her work is not translated into Hebrew \u2014 explaining that this hatred does not date just from the Eichman trial &#038; Arendt&#8217;s book on that event, but goes back to her criticsim of zionism in the 30ies. As she puts it:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Arendt quickly recognized the exclusive character of an ethnically-based zionism and its potential for violence, something that contradicted her idea of a civilian state. What she refused was specifically the military character of Israel and its dependence on major foreign powers, because from early on she saw  that source of a growing isolation and hatred in the region. Arendt could not accept the kind of military project zionism is, nor the messianic project to colonize the &#8220;land of the fathers,&#8221; a mythic &#8220;Urheimat.&#8221; Her opposition to the nation state and its claims for exclusivity and mechanisms of exclusion against ethnic minorities, inevitably led to a conflict with the zionist establishment, which always insisted on the Jewish character of Israel. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"\"><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Arendt would have been one hundred today. Strange how her work still upsets people even this late after her death: in today&#8217;s Tageszeitung, the Israeli historian Idith Zertal (cf. for example her book&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}