Blame It On The Goyim

“. . . emphasizing Gentile persecution as the root cause of Jewish
“degradation.” This ideology . . . was shared in one form or another, by all the ideologists of nineteenth-century Jewry: Reform
Jews and Zionists, assimilationists and socialists, Bundists and
Communists—all became virtuosos of ethnic suffering. . . . The
point is that these Diaspora groups were uninterested in actual
history; they were apologists, ideologists, prefabricating a past in order to answer embarrassing questions, to outfit a new identity, and to ground a claim to equal treatment in the modern world.” J. M. Cuddihy, The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (New York: Basic Books, 1974), p. 177.