In light of a new Facebook poll that asks viewers which side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict they are on, The Harvard Political Review‘s Josh Lipson writes that the differences reflected in such polls are merely an off-shoot of simple tribalism. Lipson explains that this feeling, “at its best explains why I derive pride from the Israeli flag on my wall and stir when I hear HaTikva, but at its worst accounts for Baruch Goldstein and the bombed-out buses of the Intifada.”
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