askchapo

Yes I formulated my post in a way that might imply that pre-capitalist Europe was chill with Jews which is obviously false.

Thing is, in medieval Europe, the Christians were apparently dead set on eradicating everyone else during this time, Jews included but not only.

But, when Europe became more secular and the first republics were established, there was progress on that front, even for Jews. So what begs an explanation is why did we stop crusades, the inquisition, massacres of protestants etc.. but somehow, only for the Jews, shit escalated to trying to "send them back home" and later literally kill them all?

That's where I bring the nation-state. It didn't invent persecutions, it modernized it. It prevented the liberal ideals of the republican revolution from taking grounds.

Edit : I'm realising that I'm getting lost in the details here. My point is, the existence of a people as a disaspora is fundamentally progressive and Zionism is robbing the Jews of what makes them a historical force.