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Irwin J. Mansdorf

Irwin J. Mansdorf

Irwin J. (Yitzchak) Mansdorf, Ph.D., is a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, specializing in political psychology, and a member of the emergency division of IDF Homefront Command.

For Israelis who remember the dark days following the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, this is a déjà vu moment: the collective blaming, polarization and delegitimization of whole sectors of society because of the behavior of a single fringe individual.
There is no way to achieve perfect “social distancing”—the refusers, deniers and conspiracy theorists will not be convinced by the evidence.