The Jews, for their part, are constantly trying to give the whole world the image of a community persecuted for no reason. From the departure from Egypt to Auschwitz, from the destruction of the Temple to the pogroms of the Cossacks, from the massacres committed by the Crusaders to the bonfires of the Inquisition, their history is indeed a succession of dramas. To explain this phenomenon, Jewish intellectuals come up with all sorts of theories, more or less convoluted, and end up claiming that the history of the Jewish “people” is a “mystery”, an extraordinary “enigma”, a fabulous, even cosmic destiny. Most of the time they add or imply that they might be “God’s chosen people”. But when the matter is examined more closely, the problem is actually much simpler. In any case, after reading this book, we trust that no one will speak of “Judeo-Christian” civilisation any more.
