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ICYMI: EDITORIAL: 'The True Believer', extremism, and Israel
Eric Hoffer warned decades ago that mass movements are not driven by truth, but by emotion—by frustration, identity, and the need for a cause. His landmark work, The True Believer, reads today less like theory and more like a manual for understanding the world’s fixation on Israel.
Hoffer argued that “true believers” are drawn not to facts, but to certainty. They need enemies. They need simple narratives. And above all, they need moral clarity—even if it is false.
This framework helps explain something many in Israel instinctively understand: the Jewish state is not judged by the same standards as any other nation.
As Hoffer himself put it:
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