Brilliant essay about media, anti-Semitism and anti-Westernism

At the Augean Stables, Richard Landes has posted a brilliant essay about the role the fake Mohammad Al-Durah video played as a catalyst for unleashing the worst modern anti-Semitism around the world, and about the fact that both the video’s creation and its effect are microcosms of the poisonous alchemy that is modern media, new Europe and old anti-Semitism.