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Yes, people get displaced by wars, but if you get what I'm trying to say, you know that this is different category of problem and not something that happened to them because their countrymen decided they weren't countrymen.
I understand what you're saying, I don't really see it as a different category of problem. Germans and Poles and Russians and Ukrainians have all experienced living in places for centuries only to find that the government of that place suddenly no longer considered them citizens. So did Russian aristocracy, Cambodian bourgeoisie, East African indians, hell millions of Americans have arguments around this.
This seems like another special pleading case where the Holocaust is considered particularly exceptional and gives the designated descendants of the victims a gold card to break norms that everyone else is expected to observe.
Either way the argument that the Holocaust justifies paranoia doesn't really absolve anyone of anything. If I'm dating a girl and she refuses to commit because "she's been hurt before," I'm not obligated to tolerate it and consider her a loyal girlfriend despite her disloyal behavior. Commitment is commitment, and mixed loyalty is mixed loyalty, even if it is justified paranoia rather than pure avarice.
I don't think the Holocaust is exceptional as far as genocides go. All genocides are horrific. But the Holocaust happened and it was a genocide, and genocides aren't the same as other war displacements (even if leftists today like to call everything a genocide).
I'm not really interested in horse-trading and baby-splitting about what you think constitutes a war displacement and what constitutes a genocide, how many need to die before it constitutes a genocide rather than "ethnic cleansing with the hallmarks of genocide" as Poland's parliament termed the massacre of over 100,000 Polish civilians in Volhynia during the end stages of WWII by Ukrainian nationalists who wanted to make sure that those areas would be part of the "correct" country at the end of the war.*
But I'm not sure what the point of this argument you're making is. What is the upshot here of the Holocaust being different? What impact does it have on the world today, in terms of how people should or do act?
I don't even think Jews, generally speaking, are any more likely to maintain multiple passports or loyalties than anyone else in America, curving for differences in social class, education, urban/rural split. It's a common affectation.
As an aside, accusations of hypocrisy against Jews regarding Israel/Palestine are often misplaced. Highly detailed demographic breakdowns on the NYC mayoral primary show that Zohran Mamdani won a plurality of all Jewish voters in the primary, and 67% of Jewish voters under 45 (he finished second among Jews over 45). The astroturf campaign trying to paint Mamdani as anti-semitic is mostly driven by and targeted at non-Jews.
*Learning about this really changed my view of the Nazis, in the sense that I'm still confused by the idea that the Nazis didn't actually have that tight of control over the interior of the Ukraine, that the Ukrainian Insurgent Army could still have weapons and congresses and stuff.
And also that the Ukrainian Insurgent Army would have weapons and use them on the Polish rather than on the Germans OR the Soviets! On the one hand, it's almost a kind of grimly admirable focus, there's a sort of cold-blooded truth to it: their actions did change the borders of Poland and Ukraine on a permanent basis. But it's just unimaginable to me, I'm American, I consider all racism not based on US census categories to be so junior varsity as to be pointless. Don't they realize they're all just non-hispanic whites?
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