Why does nationalism and communitarianism matter to Jews?

There is a basic evolutionary reason and drive for diversification. Over the course of history man has gone from geographic territory to more abstract forms of territory. Once society sheltered and guaranteed mans geographic territories, man went on to draw a line in the sand around his family and his people. It is this drive to mark territory that, in my opinion, is the catalyst for genocide.

Freud spoke of mans overcompensation of narcissistic differences. What he meant was that when man felt threatened by a group of people trespassing his cultural territory, he would be forced to overcompensate to prove his “vast” differences. The reality is that we are all very similar, however, psychology usually does not feel constrained to be bound by reality. If one looks to the past genocide's within the last 80 years or so, one notices something unusual about them. They all occurred between two groups of people who outsiders couldn’t even tell the difference between.

Hutu-Tutsi Genocide - Not only was this distinction conjured up by the Belgians to divert attention away from colonial corruption, but it was done so poorly that even the Hutu’s were forced to check passports prior to cutting someone up into pieces. The distinction between the two people was so minimal, even the perpetrators of the genocide could not tell the difference and was forced to rely on government issued papers.

Jews-Germans Genocide - Hitler had brown eyes and brown hair and sucked at painting. Need I say more?

Serb-Albanian Genocide - There are numerous instances where Serb militants attacked and killed other Serbs in Serb cities because they simply did not know who was who.

Khmer Rouge-Cambodia Genocide - This wasn’t genocide between two similar groups, this was genocide between the same actual groups. Cambodian v. Cambodian.

Now lets take groups of people where you would think genocide would occur, but it never actually has. There is nothing more that Muslims hate than idol worshipers. Phew..good thing there are no muslims in India. India and neighboring Pakistan has nearly 200 Million Muslims. Now I’m not saying they live in peace, there will always be aggression and to think you can rid the human mind of aggression is just ridiculous liberal nonsense. But has there ever been a genocide? No. The Arabs HATE the Jews. Has there ever been a genocide? No. The Japanese despise the Chinese and the Chinese despise the Japanese, but has there ever been a genocide? No. Of course there have been killings, the Japanese killed 250,000 Chinese in one city alone. But the Muslims have killed 250,000 Hindus over the years and the Arabs/Jews as well. But hate and aggression does not meet the threshold of genocide.

When a group is sufficiently defined from the group or community they share geographic space with, history has shown us no overwhelming desire to create genocide. It seems to be only among groups who must overcompensate to prove their narcissistic petty differences.

Communitarianism is the love, respect and acceptance of separation. Separating communities will not relinquish aggression, but it will guarantee against genocide. If the Jews truly believed in “Never Again” they would be fighting assimilation and inter-marriage, the two things which lead to genocide, and the two things they have done little if nothing about.