Nazism/Holocaust: What did Hannah Arendt really mean by 'The Banality of Evil'

American Philosophical Association ^ | Thomas White

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The Israeli who interrogated Eichmann said he was an organizational genius. Hannah Arendt at first condemned Israel grabbing Eichmann as a violation of international law. Later, she came up with a very trendy sentence.

Another exploit of this puffed up intellectual was when she heard that Zev Jabotinsky called for Jews to leave Europe before a horrific tragedy befell them (Jabotinsky saw the Holocaust a mile away), she called Jabotinsky a fascist. A reporter asked this greatest of intellectuals (cough) if she ever read anything of Zev Jabotinsky, Hannah Arendt admitted that she did not. I may be impressed with Rabbi Meir Kahane, zt'l, but not her.