Reading How the Jewish people was invented had already passionate me. The small booklet which reads in one sitting. Shlomo Sand explains the outset that it does not write for the anti-Semites he considers ignorant or suffering from an incurable disease. As for the more erudite racist, he knows not to convince. So he writes for all those who question the origins and metamorphoses of Jewish identity on modern forms of his presence and the political implications resulting from its various definitions. I found all the issues that animated my childhood and adolescence. As stated Jean-Paul Sartre is the anti-Semite who creates the secular Jew. I do not escaped from paranoia since what happened to my grandfather, gassed at Auschwitz, was likely to recur with regard to the five year old who was trying to understand why her This attitude left me gently with the emergence of other forms of identity assimilation related to my awareness of class struggle or movement of peace. So in 1967 I was shocked by Israel's policy and caused remember my origins to be able to criticize the undemocratic colonial state without anyone calling me an anti-Semite. Heinrich Heine could not have German nationality or father Sand be Polish because they were Jews. What about the Palestinian who must be "Arab" on his identity card? How would we live in France if we impose these identity characteristics antirepublican us? I have written extensively on colonialism that lies camouflaged my childhood. Relying on the bad conscience of the West, the bond that brings the Diaspora to Israel's policy is dangerous and criminal. Shlomo Sand takes the genesis of the history of Jews to understand the incredible storytelling that created a false identity from scratch through the centuries. It does not confuse hypothetical race and religion, much less this suicidal collusion with the state. It clearly analyzes the processes that led us there and Pauline Christianity which is often the cause, concurrent branch of rabbinic Judaism. He also recalled that Muslims called Jews "people of the Book" in the Qur'an when Christians were demonstrating their inability to accept another monotheism If Shlomo Sand critical Schindler's List by Steven Spielberg or some aspects of Night and Fog of Alain Resnais, he violently attacks the film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, directly supported by the Israeli government, which shows Polish peasants, uneducated and destitute, seeming as guilty as the German Nazis grown, while there were two and a half million Polish Jews, but many Polish Catholics deported to extermination camps. There is mentioned that the six million Jews, but not the total of eleven million victims of the industry of death: Gypsies, resistance fighters and opponents, Communists and Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Polish intellectuals, curators and Soviet officers , homosexuals and nine hours of film without being mentioned as a single train from France, memory Enlightenment Europe is doing well and exclusivity of genocide is well defended! My report is awkward. I would like to quote the 138 pages of this little book, an admirable demonstration of this Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Tel Aviv that echoes the film by Eyal Sivan or Simone Bitton, Israelis who do not want to give face injustice and absurdity. Jewishness is a religion. Israel is a state. The secular Jew refers to a tradition that no longer exists, to reflexes that have no place to be. The Israeli Shlomo Sand and courageously assume: supporting evil that Israeli laws impose myself belonging to a fictitious ethnic group, supporting even worse to appear with the rest of the world as a member of an elected club, I wish resign and stop considering me as a Jew. Indispensable.
