NO one, it seems, is neutral on the subject of Bobby Fischer.

The Washington Post denounced Iceland’s granting of citizenship to the fugitive former world champion and “raging anti-Semite.”

Pravda, on the other hand, praised Fischer for his anti-American vitriol.

This is ironic because when Fischer went to Reykjavik to challenge world champion Boris Spassky in 1972, he said he was there as an American first and as a chessplayer second – and he wanted to expose “mad dog Communism.”

Icelandic officials said they agreed to the extraordinary step of granting citizenship as a humanitarian gesture and because the 1972 match was one of the country’s two greatest moments. The other, in case you forgot, was hosting the 1986 Gorbachev-Reagan summit.

Fischer had been held in a Japanese lockup since he was prevented from boarding a flight last July and ended up in kicking and biting a group of bewildered airport officials.

Fischer sued to stay in Japan and avoid deportation to Washington, where he would have been tried for playing Spassky in Yugoslavia in 1992 in violation of a presidential ban on doing business in the then-outlaw nation.

After trying to obtain citizenship in Germany and elsewhere, Fischer succeeded in becoming an Icelander and was freed two weeks ago. Good riddance.