Let's get ready to rumble! Illicit love flourishes in a West Bank supermarket Think of it as a wonderful bit of revenge New single from West and Jay-Z disses Drake; will he respond? Not that you'd know it from the anti-'politics' protesters Manifesto by alleged slayer of 92 articulated Islamophobia, 'Israeli nationalism'  | |  Republicans are once again arguing that American Jews will abandon the Democratic Party. But it won't happen, because Jews recoil from the GOP's overt Christianity, even when it comes with staunch pro-Israel views. The notion that Jews are on the verge of deserting the Democratic Party is one of the perennial canards of American political commentary. It comes up every few years, spurred by the wishful thinking and manipulative polling of Republican operatives and the depressing credulity of campaign reporters. And now, for the umpteenth time, it's returned. "Obama's policies in the Middle East are alienating Jewish voters," Dick Morris, the right-wing operative behind a widely touted new survey of American Jews, told Fox News earlier this month. The Washington Times made the same point in a story citing a poll by the conservative group Secure America Now. Obama's "ambivalence toward Israel leaves an opening for the GOP," read the subhead. More  | The Israeli left has collapsed in the last decade. But the right, despite its successes, is dying, too, brought down by Russian-imported maximalism and American-imported political consultants. More |  | French Jews, confronting anti-Semitism in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, created the figure of the intellectual. And now, arguing about Israel and Islam, they're killing it. More BY Robert Zaretsky |  | Two new books, The Druggist of Auschwitz and Reluctant Accomplice, offer true stories of average citizens' divergent responses to Nazi rule. They help us examine our own rationalization of genocide. More | |
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