Mondoweiss has reported the death of Tony Judt.  I daresay they’d know. As good a moment as any to recall that he regarded Jews as morally unfit for self-government and warned that the Jews as a whole might have to suffer as a result of the alleged crimes of some individual Jews.

Neither was he shy about using the memory of his own butchered relatives as a shield  to protect his views that Jews paid too much attention to the Holocaust and used it to protect themselves against criticism for the crimes they commit today.

For a penetrating critique of Judt’s views on the Holocaust you should read this brilliant text by Norman Geras from which I offer this brief quote:

As I have argued before, there is not too much attention given to the Holocaust or any other genocide, there is too little. Think only of the energy and attention that is being given, in the US and globally, to the American presidential election; or think of a major sporting event like the football World Cup; and then think how it might be, politically, if there were a planetary consciousness, a world-wide human rights movement, so cognizant of the worst crimes of the past, not turned away from them towards easier preoccupations, that people marched and agitated in their tens and hundreds of thousands whenever there was a genocide in process or threatening, demanded that the governments of the world and the institutions of world governance would treat these situations as urgent. Can Tony Judt, or anyone, be confident that this would not make the world a better place?