As an MTA driver, I was disappointed that instead of discussing drivers' ongoing concerns about restroom facilities, she resorted to an ethnocentric stereotypical rant.

In his introduction to Theory and Criticism, Adi Ophir, a lecturer in philosophy at Tel Aviv University, declared: "The contributors write out of fear that control over Palestinians in particular, and the adoption of the political forms of an ethnocentric and racist nation-state in general, are turning Israel into the most dangerous place in the world for the humanity and morality of the Jewish community, for the continuity of Jewish cultures and perhaps for Jewish existence itself.

Again it's not clear if Buruma thinks these are vicious ethnocentric stereotypes or a reasonable enough complaint.