meek Jew - and beyond

Gans show how the the Holocaust was used against the Jews, in this case through accusations by former resistance members and others, that the Jews had not put up any or not enough resistance to the Nazis - the old stereotype of the 'cowardly Jew'. She describes turning points such as the Eichman trial (1961)as well as dissenters, who argued that relatively many Jews were involved in the resistance. She also discusses the parallel in Israel where the Jew is regarded as both a brave fighter and as a perpetrator of injustices against 'the Arabs' - the first still sporadic expressions of anti-Zionism occassionally crossing over into antisemitism.