The increase in antisemitism has been alarming. Now that peace appears to be on the horizon it needs to be studied for what it really is. It has revealed a familiar but poorly understood aspect of human behavior. It is not so much a matter of hatred and evil as you might think. It’s a lot more complicated. It’s ugly, sure enough but so many of the mob seem to be nice normal people in other ways. Nice normal people, though, often are the ones that do the worst things. Certainly, they have been inflamed and insensate – that is what a mob is. But a mob is nothing without the participation of the people who will regret it later.
