From Dr Rafael Medoff, founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies:
Following his visit to Israel, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) said on November 29: “I felt a tension in Israel, from the Jewish community, the psychology of occupation impacted the Jews who live there who are free… there’s a history of complex trauma that people are living with every day. Yad Vashem brought that home to me.”
Congressman Bowman is not the first observer to make the insulting and false claim that Israeli Jews are mentally disturbed as a result of the Holocaust, and that they are therefore incapable of making rational decisions about government policy. In fact, that allegation has become almost standard fare among armchair psychiatrists looking for ways to deride the Jewish state.
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