Arendt held that attacks levied on one’s Jewishness must be answered as a Jew

Evidence

I don’t make the rules, either. Hannah Arendt had a rule, though. “If one is attacked as a Jew, one must defend oneself as a Jew,” she wrote. “Not as a German, not as a world-citizen, not as an upholder of the Rights of Man.” So is that what I have to do? What I have been putting off doing all this time? Do I have to defend myself from all this as a Jew? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 914

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Klein analyzing how identity categories force a defensive posture — resonates with Naqvi’s Home Boy on imposed Muslim identity, and the reader’s interest in whether the doubling device holds through the final chapters.
• QUESTION: Whether Klein ends up embracing or resisting the Arendtian rule in the Israel/Palestine chapters is the crux the reader flagged.