…So in the Jewish village online, everyone is talking about the New York Times’ latest abomination: the printing of not one but two Nazi-like caricatures of Jews, specifically portraying the prime minister of Israel as a lowly dog or egomaniacal self-styled Moses.

Jews are outraged but should not be surprised. This newspaper, which was bought by a American German Reform Jew before the first Zionist Congress in Basle, Switzerland, in 1897 and has been hostile to Zionist every day since then. The only thing new here is the lower than ever ugliness; Jews experienced Nazi-like flashes at these cartoons which is a step further down after decades of the sick crankiness against Israel of Little Tommy Friedman and Roger Cohen, in a class with Jews in centuries past who converted to Christianity and Islam and became the Jewish people’s worst tormenters…

…And I ask, why are the enlightened so hateful toward Mr. Netanyahu? What has he done or not done to merit the scorn, mockery and contempt that the Enlightened smear him with? Perhaps because he refuses to beat his chest and confess that he is a racist oppressor of a third world people administering an apartheid society and order all the Jews living in the West Bank to immediately leave their homes and hand everything over the legitimate, ancient landlords of Balestine?

In this mindset, beneath the surface, is age-old and age-less Jew-hatred that morphs and molts from one historical epoch to another. For two thousand years, Christians reveled in their hatred of Jews for being the guilty murderers of Jesus who was their messiah and really no less G-d Himself.

In our historical period, that way of hating Jews has pretty withered is rarely heard, which makes sense since Christendom in Europe is on its way out. Today we Jews are no longer Christ-killers but an evil people nonetheless for our unjust, evil theft of Balestine from the Balestinians. Today Jews are guilty of crucifying the innocent Palestinians, the victims of the Jews’ Zionism…

…Bernie Sanders reminds me of the Communists I knew at Columbia University in the 1960s, some of whom went on to become SDS terrorists. I found them all second-rate intellects who at some level of unawareness knew they were second-rate and dreamed of Communism as the answer, a society in which there is no competition between people and no one is richer than anyone else. A society in which merit and achievements play no role. There is no role for excellence. There is no penalty for being second rate…

…And the big news in Israel when on my R & R was the latest round of elections that changed little but was nonetheless historic as the death knell of the ideology of the founding fathers of Israel, the social democrats led into statehood by David ben-Gurion and Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan and Itzhak Rabin etc., the secular collectivists, represented in the election by Netanyahu’s rival Blue and White trio of IDF generals. That founding generation idolized more than the traditional Jewish pursuits of scholarship and science the soldier and their loss is emblematic of the passing of a generation of Jews, these post-religious, self-styled democratic socialists who led the way into statehood and dominated the country for its first three decades…