Jews Have Not Learned From the Past

The idea that jews have not learned from the past contends that, due to the history of Jewish suffering, Jews today should be held to higher moral standards than groups who have not experienced such a past. This suffering is presented as a “learning experience” from which Jews ought to have derived a particular set of idealised ethical and political positions. Their supposed failure to learn such lessons is then turned into an accusation of moral deficiency and used as a means of attacking Jews, Jewish institutions, and the State of Israel or its citizens.