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How the left’s ‘perfect storm’ infected America with Jew hate

Few could have predicted that blaming Israel and the Jews who support it would flare up in the early 21st century — and in America of all places.

After all, Israel is the only consensual society in the Middle East: It holds regular elections and maintains tripartite judicial, executive and legislative checks and balances.

Free speech is found in the Middle East only in Israel, where religious apostasy, criticism of one’s own country, gender equity and tolerance of gays are guaranteed, in marked contrast to all its neighbors.

True, the recent affluence of the Gulf states presents a thin veneer of Westernism that has fooled many in the new anti-Israel media.

But just because Qatar didn’t censor a celebrity newsman’s broadcast from Doha doesn’t make it a free society.

After all, no Western journalist would dare schedule a broadcast from Qatar with a Qatari who had condemned the regime for its intolerance.

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So why and how did millions of Americans begin to express hatred for Israel and, albeit more subtly, the Jews who support it?

There are four converging fronts in this perfect storm.

First, demography: The US Muslim population is........

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