When Ro Khanna made a sharp joke in response to an AIPAC smear, David Frum didn’t see politics but 3,000 years of Jew-hatred. That is hasbara culture in action.
The pogroms against Palestinians that are a weekly occurrence, and the long reign of Netanyahu, have all been rendered “understandable” by a crew of hasbara culture journalists like Yair Rosenberg, Bret Stephens, David Frum, and Jeffrey Goldberg, who have purveyed a mythology of Jews as the sacred special victims of history. The ethnocentricity has laid waste to Jewish political culture.