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Iran Is Spared Palin's Punch
Opinionator — ... and disinvited every politician, Ms. Palin included. All that did was anger some Jews on the right. In the end, the entire episode had “turned into a political embarrassment,” wrote The Forward, a Jewish weekly. So it always seems to go when Mr. Ahmadinejad is in town. Chances are good that he will be here again next year. Maybe by then yet another group of New Yorkers will have figured out how to get it wrong. However, David Bernstein, writing at the Volokh Conspiracy, thinks the Jewish left has the black eye : Has any political organization squandered its credibility as ...