When the “far-right” FPO came to power as part of a coalition government in Austria, Israel, acting at the behest of local Jews, chose to boycott FPO officials. Netanyahu is now apparently reconsidering this. But “Austrian” Jews are demanding he stick to the status quo.

We sometimes get so used to the Jewiness of Jews that we lose our capacity to be surprised or angry about it. We just factor it into our perception of the way the world is. We accept that Jews will act as a deterritorialised nation violating the basic norms of loyalty that we would expect to apply to any other group of citizens. Here we have Jews conspiring with the government of a foreign country to undermine its relationship with the government of their “own” country. Our failure to be indignant about this is a form of Jewish privilege.