Few facets of today’s politics are more obvious or more startling than the Left’s hatred of Israel. Be it the United Nations, elite universities or The New York Times, the Left unashamedly uses its institutions as forums from which to conduct its relentless campaign of vilification. What makes the Left’s behavior especially puzzling is that it runs counter to one of its supposedly most cherished principles – concern for oppressed minorities. Its opprobrium of the country sheltering a group that has been persecuted longer, more unjustly and more cruelly than any other thus presents a seemingly irreconcilable contradiction. To see...