Great Minds Think Alike

Submitted by Stuart Fagin (United States), Aug 17, 2010 at 23:53

As an explanation of the current anti-Israel mass psychosis, this rings true. It is interesting that two commentators, George Will and Daniel Pipes, have both called attention to this new idea at the same time. From Will's recent post: "Israel, with its deep sense of nationhood, is beyond unintelligible to transnational Europeans; it is a stench in their nostrils." Clearly, great minds think alike. However, science teaches us to simultaneously work with multiple models and so we should not precipitously abandon the old standbys to explain anti-Israeli bias; (a) anti-Semitism, (b) an indirect form of anti-Americanism, and (c) currying favor with Israel's adversaries.

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