Yes, but please don't excuse the Israelis. What I have in mind is the Israeli attitude toward the rest of the world. Too often, it is hostile. Just an anecdote: A few years ago, my wife and I visited Budapest, from where my grandparents had emigrated to the U.S. over a hundred years ago. We found the city interesting and the Great Synagogue quite fascinating, both in its architecture and its iconography. But the process of entering the synagogue was quite distasteful. It was guarded by several young Israeli men who, despite the fact that I am obviously Jewish, were unpleasant and churlish to us (maybe that is redundant, but they were awful) . They almost ruined our visit.

Anecdotes are dangerous, but they are the way people learn about he world.