No One Loses a Debate Over Anti-Semitism. Except Jews.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) just got a humbling lesson in the power of anti-Semitism: It can't be bribed away with a plum subcommittee appointment or threatened out with a primary challenge. Watching the utter disaster that unfolded when congressional leaders suggested making a simple, full-throated condemnation of anti-Semitism, I tried to think of something less surprising. I couldn't. This began badly for the Jews; it ended badly for the Jews; and in the middle was a whole heaping pile of bad for the Jews.