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