In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt argued that Adolf Eichmann and other Nazi leaders responsible for the Holocaust weren’t hate-filled, anti-Semitic monsters but ordinary human beings. Arendt’s book remains as controversial now as when it was first published serially in the New Yorker 50 years ago. Gershom Scholem, a childhood friend of Arendt, has accused Arendt of insufficient love of Israel. Arendt said that she has never tried to deny her Jewishness, but that she has never loved any collective, be it Israel, Germany or America. “I indeed love ‘only’ my friends and the only kind of love I know of and believe in is the love of persons” (American Scholar, Summer).