…Before me on my desk is a clipping from Friday’s International Herald Tribune – which is just the New York Times slightly adapted when published in Paris – and it is an op-ed piece that is a must-read. I think of its appearance as sort of a miracle. I’ve been reading the New York Times editorial pages for like half-century and counting, and I’ve never seen anything it. It is a piece by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the first ever I think, whose topic is antisemitism among the Muslims which rivals Nazi propaganda at its worst. I mean, not only have we now seen the president of Egypt on video likening Jews to apes and pigs, Ms. Hirsi Ali writes that for children as young as three, textbooks feature paintings of Jews as monstrous creatures, and in songs, newspaper articles and blogs Jews are variously compared to donkeys and rats and cockroaches too. And vampires…