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Why Are They So Angry? (Prospect)

"He's lying! He's lying!" the man at the back of the hall shouted, in a tone
as desperate as it was angry. "He hasn't read the Geneva Conventions. You
haven't read them, so you don't know he's lying."

The primary object of his rage was me. The secondary object, it seemed, was
his fellow congregants, who'd allowed me to lecture at his New York-area
synagogue. I'd spoken about threats to Israel's democracy, including those
posed by ongoing expansion of West Bank settlements. This was the first time,
I'd been told, that the congregation had hosted a speaker on Israel from
outside a spectrum running from right-wing to very right-wing. During the
question-and-answer period, I was asked about my statement that the legal
counsel of Israel's Foreign Ministry had warned before the first West Bank
settlement was established that it would violate the agreement of the Fourth
Geneva Convention. That's when the man in the back came unstuck. The
congregation's rabbi, who was moderating the Q&A session with the trained calm
of a psychologist running group therapy for fractured families, slipped to the
back of the room and talked him down.

The incident stayed with me, demanding ...

Prospect