Sunday, September 09, 2012

Adorno on Israel

A reader sent me a quotation by Adorno on Israel after the 1967.  This brilliant man sounded like Abraham Foxman when he talked about Israel.  I told the reader that Max Horkheimer was even worse: but remember that Horkheimer even turned against the student movement in Germany.  You can be brilliant and dumb at the same time.

PS Marcuse had a very different take: he was quite critical of Israel.  I met with his widow shortly after arriving into the US and we talked extensively about his views, and she told me that he was very critical of Israel.