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Antisemitism & Social Illness

The “crimes” of Israel, however heinous, and the sufferings of the Palestinians, however awful, cannot possibly explain the enlarged and violent emotions they arouse. I think of anti-Semitism as a form of mental deformation, which attaches itself to the Jews because they represent some archetypal Other.

Margaret Wente examines antisemitism in Canada as a greater sign of social illness.

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