How is Edenism related to antisemitism?
• Edenists believe that they have left Judaism behind, but its very survival is felt as a kind of affront. Jewish scepticism about pie-in-the-sky has to be paid for by persecution, attempts at assimilation, or condescension. …the survival of the Jews is a refutation of that eschatalogical view of things which history has so obviously condemned, including the high hopes once entertained of the 1917 Revolution. Hence, anti-Semitism is in no sense a feature of the Right alone. …If, then, the very existence of Israel is felt by some to be an aggression, it is because the affirmation of a Jewish existence is felt to be an aggression by the eschatological faiths deriving from Judaism. For them, Jewish emancipation, as soon as it goes beyond demanding that toleration which is the maximum that can be allowed, represents and intolerable provocation. Any freedom to return to the deeper sources radically challenges (although in a form not very clearly understood) the diluted and composite riv
