When anti-Semitic public intellectuals such as the late Nobel laureate Jose Saramago compare Israel to Nazi Germany, the Israeli Left makes light of their remarks.
For Glocer, those interests include reading "anything by Roth, Rushdie, Saramago, Camus, Mahfouz, Mann, Dostoevsky, Helprin, Marquez, Houellebecq, " and listening to, amongst others, the Grateful Dead, U2 and Coldplay.