The Secular Beatification of Rachel Corrie By Aigle Media • August 2012 • Views: 915 Following an Israeli court ruling that the 2003 death of activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by a bulldozer, was accidental, Brendan O’Neill analyses the troubling mindset of comfortable Westerners who travel to Gaza and the West Bank to interfere with Israeli military operations. In The secular beatification of Rachel Corrie sums up everything that is wrong with modern solidarity with Palestine O’Neill observes that “Palestinian solidarity has become creepily anthropological.”