Bangladesh, May 27 -- Of the laceration of Israel there is no end. The most recent contributor to this favored pastime is Noura Erakat, a Rutgers University professor and human rights attorney. Her impeccable left-wing credentials include legal advocacy for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement and the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.

Her new book, Justice For Some, is an attempt to implant her political bias within a scholarly framework of Israeli "colonial domination" based on "racial and ethnic discrimination" as the Jewish state becomes "a de jure apartheid regime." Why go any further with a diatribe that embraces every current cliche about a malevolent Jewish state? Because it exposes, if inadvertently, the polit...