Was Cruz afraid to speak of the plight of massacred Christians without multiple shout outs to Israel? I mean, it was off topic.
He was responding to previous speakers who were Jew bashing...he was right on topic!!!
The only way it might be considered "off topic" is if one defines the "topic" so narrowly as to exclude all forms of bigotry except anti-Christian bigotry. And most of us would prefer not to be quite so narrow as that.
And I have no reason to believe that Sen. Cruz was "afraid" to speak of those massacred Christians. I believe he would, indeed, have addressed that matter, if he had not been treated so despicably. (That sort of blatant rudeness is usually the hallmark of the frustrated left--not the right...)