Settlers gone wild

It's the colonialism, stupid

Max Boot is baffled. Two countries he loves — Israel and the United States — have been hijacked by reactionaries, and he can’t figure out why:

Yet, while I retain affection for Israel, I often feel as if I do not recognize what it has become. This is a familiar feeling for me, since I am similarly befuddled by modern America: How did we turn into a land …