What Ruffalo actually did was take a family’s business decision, an American company buying an American media conglomerate, and launder it through Israel to try and make it seem sinister.

SWANA is not a description of a region’s peoples. It is a membership test, and the price of admission is agreement on Jews and Israel.

At a moment when California faces soaring costs, housing shortages, energy challenges, water insecurity and mounting technological competition from China, Ro Khanna chose to travel halfway around the world in pursuit of yet another public confrontation with America’s closest and best ally in the Middle East.

Accountability worthy of a democratic society begins with evidentiary discipline: corroboration, transparency, context and standards proportional to the gravity of the accusation.

Indigeneity asks where a people became a people – not where its descendants happened to be living centuries later. By that standard, few peoples and lands match more clearly the idea of indigeneity than the Jewish people with the Land of Israel.

Americans – and Israelis in particular – are not reacting to spin, or to partisan framing, or to media distortions. They are reacting to the text of the agreement itself, and to what has followed it.

America is not modern Israel’s creator, and Israel is not America’s dependent. The two nations have influenced one another and benefited from one another, but the deepest roots of that relationship predate them both.

Blood libels were never about evidence. They were about moral conditioning – preparing societies to see Jews as uniquely sinister, corrupting and deserving of suspicion.

Only Jews are routinely told that indigeneity comes with a statute of limitations.

Christianity and Islam make fundamentally different claims about Jesus.