The problem of the Jews is that they are lost, and the theme of wandering in their spiritual history is original and not a political incident. Since their loss in the Sinai desert and their longing for the land of Canaan, through the destruction of their temple, and ending with their occupation of the land of Palestine, they endure an almost unbearable amount of wandering.
From here, Heidegger was sufficiently vigilant and careful in attacking the most important intruder among the Jews that began to infiltrate the Western Christian spirit hidden in the horizon of modernity and the takeover of arithmetic logic, meaning the lack of metaphysical ground on which a people stands. Heidegger's apprehension of the Jews is an ontological apprehension, not an atypical apprehension at all. "Schwarze Hefte" that were published in 2014, and caused controversy to renew again, in the second part of these memoirs, Heidegger believes that the Jews are “expatriates who are addicted to existence at the expense of existence” through their computational logic.
For a person or a culture without a world to live in and inhabit, and therefore they impede any new beginning aimed at laying a foundation. The most dangerous thing about the Jews, according to our philosopher, is that they are without foundation and without a world groundless.
The arithmetic rationality of the Jews surrounds them with a kind of inauthentic praxis that is capable of concealing and obliterating the meaning of existence, and then forgetting it. Here, Heidegger distances himself from the common Nazi populist version of anti-Jewishness, which is based on biological racism that is, the protagonist side. The fight between our philosopher and the Jews is a metaphysical fight, not a political one, as is thought.
What made the Greeks great and a metaphysical precursor to all forms of original thinking that came after them is that, first and foremost, they lived and dwelt in polis that would establish their spiritual, philosophical, artistic and moral history. The city was not just a piece of land subservient to them, but rather it was a dawn that shed all the morning's radiance from its strings.
Establishment here means that the horizon of existence is opening up, flourishing, and manifesting for the first time. This is what the Jews lack, as they always live “before” the beginning, as they are without foundation, and therefore they can never be open to existence. Heidegger associates the increase in the influence of the Jews in modern Europe, and the West in general, with the dominance of modern metaphysics, that is, Cartesian-Hobbesianism: that is, the extension of the self in the space of being, and the transformation of the world into a mathematical subject with the intention of domination and control over it, which reached its climax with high-tech today, as it uprooted man from his roots and left him abandoned.
He lives without a world, and therefore the problem, then, is essentially metaphysical and not a global political conspiracy. He said, “The temporary increase in the influence of the Jews is due to the fact that Western metaphysics has helped to provide the necessary starting point for the self-proliferation of empty rationality and computational power” that would conceal and obliterate existence from the existing. Then our philosopher continues by saying, “It is not related to it being an ethnic issue, but rather to being a metaphysical issue related to the quality of human existence that can, in a totally unlimited way, undertake, as a matter of the task related to world history, to eradicate everything that exists from existence.”
From here, we must not lose sight of the close link between the establishment of the State of Israel and the spread of nihilism in the Western spirit, and to consider Israel as a clear sign of a terrible moral weakness that afflicted humanity, and a breaking of the Western spiritual horizon that turned people into metaphysical orphans and moral dependents on their own. The conscience of humanity is everywhere.
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