A conversation with psychoanalyst and historian Eran Rolnik

Despite its deep roots in modernity, anti-Semitism often appears as a phantom or metaphor, even when it is obvious, as if shielded from consciousness by a memory disorder.

The reality of anti-Semitism is often doubted or viewed in retrospect as a relic of the past

Can the events of October 7, 2023 offer new insights into the psychological and social functions of this phenomenon? Does the current hatred of Jews point to a new form of technologically enhanced not wanting to know?

Eran Rolnik, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist and historian, is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Medical Director of the Office for Personal Compensation from Germany. He is known for his commitment to raising public awareness of the value of psychoanalytic thinking, especially in relation to social and political realities.

In his articles in Haaretz, he criticized the inability of many leftists to respond emotionally and morally appropriately to the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7.

In early November 2023, he made headlines when he published in an open letter that he was being interrogated by the National Service Commission for critical articles about Benjamin Netanyahu.

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