Last month, the small pond of Ithaca, NY swelled into a storm of controversy when a Mother’s Day piece appeared in the Ithaca Journal, describing one mother’s “growing sense of inner peace and well-being” that has made her a “more open, kind, loving and patient” parent after eschewing the kind of victimhood mentality that pervades the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: “On the global scale, for example, Zionist Jews in Israel have occupied Palestinian land in the name of God and victimhood. If anyone criticizes Israel for their terrorist attacks and slaughter of the Palestinians, they are immediately labeled "anti-Semitic" and guilt-inflicted for...