an alarming number of people of all political affiliations are increasingly transparent about their belief that jews are little pieces in a board game that can simply be moved around the board as they see fit. completely central to the game and yet completely at the mercy of the players.
A really petty form of this you see a lot is people going āwhy didnāt/donāt we put Israel (the jews) hereā usually alongside a map and breakdown of the various supposed benefits of putting us there. The completely uncritically accepted assumptions underlying such an exercise being
1) jews live somewhere they āshouldnātā
2), jews living somewhere they shouldnāt is a political problem in need of solution (the ājewish problemā you could say)
3) āweā (non jews) were, and apparently remain, the ones entitled to decide where the correct place to put the jews is
And thereās often a 4) jews living somewhere is seen as a punishment for that place, as demonstrated by the fact many of these exercises involve determining whether the proposed place ādeservesā to have jews āimposedā on it for its past misbehavior (Germany, America, etc)
