Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem" (Part 1 of 4)

In this episode, I cover chapters 1-3 of Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem"
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[@user-du3wj2ru1i]

I guess it's high time for me to finally read the book

[@PageOOO]

I found your channel a few hours ago and I can’t stop watching it. Great work!

[@playforforever]

Great work shedding a light on this issue. I'd suggest looking into Perdition, the 1987 play by British socialist Jim Allen. It's on Rudolf Kastner and the role of Zionists in assisting Nazis in sending Hungarian Jews to their deaths. Perdition was repressed in 1987 when it was first written and continues to be repressed to this day.

[@thomaswright5407]

It was directed by Ken Loach as well before it was cancelled by Zionist Oxford Uni "historians". There's an amazing round table discussion on KZbin from 1987 abou the whole affair where Jim Allen and his cohorts demolish the Zionist hacks. Amazing to watch but also sad to see how longstanding the problem of censorship or cancelling has been from the Israel lobby

[@richardgraham7055]

H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956): “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” Also read Fletcher Prouty's great books: 'The Secret Team', and, 'JFK : the CIA, Vietnam, and he plot to assassinate John F. Kennedy'. Both stolen from library shelves wherever found, and their existence physically removed from the Library of Congress Master Card Catalogue. These volumes actually became "unBooks". Harry S. Truman: “I never would have agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven, if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.” Alfred McCoy's wonderful personal history of CIA heroin drug dealing during early 60s Vietnam: 'The Politics of Heroin'. This demolished America's honourable, democratic presumptions as many US governments conspired to addict thousands of soldiers. The CIA broke the path for Mafia heroin wealth, much as American bigotries and FBI stupidity made the Mafia powerful with Prohibition. William Casey (CIA Director 1981-1987): “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” Finally, Gary Webb's fabulous book: 'Dark Alliance'. This revealed CIA-Contra conspiracy to replace Iran Contra arms deal money supporting gross human rights violations. The Contras and the CIA invented crack cocaine and another drug addiction crisis. The Washington Post and NY Times crucified Webb calling him a lying traitor. The CIA was finally forced to admit Webb was truthful all along. Dmitry Orlov: “Americans have the attention span of a tropical fish.” Primo Levi: “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.” This is exactly the main point of Arendt's book: it's banal little people like Eichmann, despised by 'true Nazis' as careerist 'March Violets', that make every monster's evil dreams possible.

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Norman Finkelstein: “The biggest insult to the memory of the holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.” Albert Einstein: “If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.” (08:50) Widespread Anti-Semitism: Canada denied Jewish Holocaust emigrants with the phrase, "None is too many". It's no accident that Canadian Parliamentarians gave an extended standing ovation to an ancient, SS Nazi war criminal. Canadians, like the British and French, welcomed the thought of Jewish extinction. Israel Shahak (Israeli historian, Holocaust survivor): “The Nazis made me afraid of being Jewish and the Zionists made me ashamed of being Jewish.” Albert Einstein: "The most important aspect of our policy must be our ever-present, manifest desire to institute complete equality for the Arab citizens living in our midst … The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people. … What saddens me is less the fact that the Jews are not smart enough to understand this, but rather, that they are just not smart enough to want it.”

[@hongkongischeaper]

I got teared up listening to this. Thank you!

[@okaytoletgo]

Hello, may I suggest that your viewers might like to stream the Hannah Arendt Center's Virtual Reading Group streams on zoom. Currently, the work being discussed together is Eichmann in Jerusalem. Thank you for your measured voice quality. We have our emotions, and the words are working overtime and at risk of fatigue; we, who are interested, have been "on this" topic and read around a lot.

[@chrisacapulco9298]

many thanks for covering this book. I would love to see you in one of the coming parts go into the criticism Arendt received especially for her claim that Eichmann was, as you phrase it, a low ranking desk criminal, while he in fact was the leader of the department (it even bears his name), responsible for the organization of expropriation and deportation of the european jews. doesnt mean he was the sole evil mastermind, but for instance he visited several concentration camps and inspected gas chambers first-hand. historians have indicated, that Arendts report is inadvertently leaning very much into Eichmanns own defense strategy of "I was just following orders".

[@joerodriguez2627]

Read this on your recommendation and really enjoyed the read. Very interesting points. Necessary info

[@growingmelancholy8374]

Cheers for this.

[@user-iv6ft3ci7m]

Great going to listen to all this

[@sisterraysson]

why does the spotify version of this episode have PC party ads? i thought the first one came off as ironic but it also ends with a second one

[@timmulhern8188]

Not all Nuremberg defendants were hung. Albert Speer, Admiral Doenitz

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

Wonderful lecture here, David! Your righteous indignation is appreciated and I find the sternness and frankness of your tone rather necessary. I was curious, what did you mean at 8:19 when you mentioned that it is illegal to implicate certain other country’s’ complicity in the Holocaust? Is that per Polish law? US or Canadian? Something else?

[@TheoryPhilosophy]

It's illegal to suggest Poland cooperated with the Nazis (at least it was a few years ago)

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

@@TheoryPhilosophy Wow!

[@illuminecortana1244]

When was the jewish question first mentioned and by who? (in a book or essay)

[@Silencio1126]

Are there any philosophy or history or maybe even political science students in these comments? I am thinking about studying history, European history. Just looking for advice. I love this channel. There is an MA/PhD program at my local state university where I live and just any thoughts would be appreciated. I have a bachelors and masters in mechanical engineering and I absolutely hate working in my field as much of what I used to enjoy about engineering and physics is not included in the workplace Setting which is largely bureaucratic. I am just hoping to find some meaning in my journey of life, and really delve into something interesting to study.. Thanks.

[@illuminecortana1244]

Maybe he just didn't do it or didn't know ant that's why he didn't consider himself guilty

[@illuminecortana1244]

What was the first law the bolsheviks made and what was the punishment for it?

[@GD-rd6ig]

Your intro is enough for me to move on.