And what came before THAT?!

The state of Israel wouldn’t be born if not for the effects of the holocaust which in turn wouldn’t have happened if not, in part, due to the assimilation attempts of German Jews and the deep schism between them and Orthodox and Zionist Jews, the latter of which wouldn’t have existed if Jews didn’t feel they needed to aspire to return to Israel, which wouldn’t have happened if not for the “Storms in the South” pogroms of 1881, which wouldn’t have started if not for the Jewish role in the revolutions that led to the assassination of Tzar Alexander II, which wouldn’t have happened if not for the mass exodus of Jews from their shtetls into the universities - thanks to said Tzar, which was his attempt to emancipate Jews from their Jewish way of life. Dizzy yet? If we’re not willing to ask what are the causes of the new antisemitism and then what caused that, and what cause that and what caused that… all the way to what did nature ‘want’ when it caused all of this to happen in the first place - we’ll never get to the bottom of this. Into the rabbit hole we go.