Last week, a panel convened in Newton, Massachusetts, the well-heeled suburb of Boston. Newton, which Barney Frank represented in Congress for decades, is the epicenter for Jewish liberals, who spring up like gluten-free organic mushrooms on the lawns of Tudor mansions. But some of their multicultural sanctimony is wearing a trifle thin -- at least for those few who care. Their textbooks, it seems, are pockmarked with anti-Israel bias. This is not a new problem for Newton. Last year, a student at Newton South High School was perplexed by a passage from the chapter she was assigned in her World History class, a chapter called "Women, an Essay," from a supplemental text called the Arab World Studies Notebook. In a paragraph devoted to women "in the struggle for independence from colonial powers," she found: Over the past four decades, women have been active in the Palestinian movement. Several hundred have been imprisoned, tortured, and killed by Israeli occupation forces since the latest uprising, "intifada," in the Israeli occupied territories. This....
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