What Do You Think Of This Statement By Hannah Arendt?

When this Jewish tradition of an often vio-lent antagonism to Christians and Gentiles came to light “the general Jewish public was not only outraged but genuinely astonished,” so well had its spokesmen succeeded in convincing themselves and everybody else of the non-fact that Jewish separateness was due exclusively to Gentile hostility and lack of enlightenment. Judaism, it was now maintained chiefly by Jewish his-torians, had always been superior to other religions in that it believed in hu-man equality and tolerance. That this self-deceiving theory, accompanied by the belief that the Jewish people had always been the pive, suffering ob-ject of Christian persecutions, actually amounted to a prolongation and mod-ernization of the old myth of chosenness . . . is perhaps one of those ironies which seem to be in store for those who, for whatever reasons, try to embel-lish and manipulate political facts and historical records. (Hannah Arendt 1968, viii–ix; inner quote from Katz [1961b, 196])