Damning accusations about “fake news” have permeated the two Trump administrations. The president, who admittedly has no peer in political insults, is, nonetheless, not entirely wrong.

The fifth season of Netflix’s global thriller, “Fauda,” is now streaming, ten years after the hit television series first introduced the gritty realism and high drama of Israeli counterespionage to the world of undercover cop procedurals. It has been an improbable hit since its launch.

The silver anniversary of 9/11 was marked this year by not only the annual recitation of the names of the dead, but the maiden voyage of a steel beam recovered from the Ground Zero wreckage. What had fallen from the sky will now cross the country as a symbol of Islam’s war against the West.

For a people with an earned reputation for academic excellence and street seichel, Jews nowadays are establishing an entirely different tribal stereotype: a people chock-full of morons; a confederacy of Jewish stupidity.