When Facebook Becomes Blogging

 For the most of you who don't know who Ari Roth is, it's difficult to convey how shocking this is. Five years ago, Ari Roth was forced out of Theater J for making them produce works that took the Palestinian point of view into account. Now he's being thrown out of the new theater company he formed for not producing work that only takes the Palestinian view into account. Maybe it's jingoism or parochial provincialism, but I will always believe that while Jews are self-evidently no more morally reliable than anybody else, the continual Jewish centrality to world history makes Jewish issues a particularly reliable canary in the coal mine, so no matter how obviously horrible the American right is and how clearly they are the current imminent threat, the speed with which the far left has gone mainstream is bad news for the country, and especially bad news for Jews. We will all eventually pay a price for it, but Jews particularly.