> In 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France, Weil fled to the United States at the last possible moment, and only because she knew that her parents, bourgeois Jews, would not leave without her.
> her virulent, if complex anti-Semitism, a subject over which nearly all of her present-day commentators pass in silence
This is weird.
Her parents were Jews, yet she was virulently anti-Semetic?
And the essay's author, Jack Hanson, makes a point to note that her present-day commentators turn a blind eye to it ... yet he never mentions it again?
> her virulent, if complex anti-Semitism, a subject over which nearly all of her present-day commentators pass in silence
This is weird.
Her parents were Jews, yet she was virulently anti-Semetic?
And the essay's author, Jack Hanson, makes a point to note that her present-day commentators turn a blind eye to it ... yet he never mentions it again?