I will never weaken my writing by saying Goerring unalived himself

all time classic line and it’s not even the best one in the video

I feel like one explanation for the trial of Eichmann in Israel that Jacob didn’t expose here because it deviated from his thesis is that Israel really liked having the chance to legitimize the narrative of Zionism as liberation and justice for Jews after the Shoah by prosecuting one of its architects. It’s very effective myth-making.

I really wish he wasn’t so uncritical of Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem.