Analyzing the 1970 film I Love My Wife, and its obviously Jewish leading man Elliot Gould, Michael Weingrad observes an “uncomfortable obfuscation of a certain kind of sociological Jewishness” found in other movies of the era:

In I Love My Wife, we see the protagonist early on as an adolescent being launched toward a lifetime of sexual compulsion by a neurotic mother who, for instance, pounds on the bathroom door to make sure he isn’t masturbating. (He is.) It’s all third-rate Portnoy’s Complaint, yet we then see the family at . . . church?

We can see plainly that they are Jews, like the director Mel Stuart; the screenwriter [Robert] Kaufman; Gould, married for a decade to Barbra Streisand; and, it goes without saying, the producers. . . . So why this bizarre pretense that Gould and family are Protestants?

The answer is that I Love My Wife is one of many movies from 1967 to 1972 that stumble awkwardly around the question of how to present overtly Jewish characters, especially men. With painful insecurity, and using the license of the counterculture to overcompensate with aggression and offense, these movies gave us a rogues’ gallery of often profoundly unlikeable characters—though a few are sympathetic anti-heroes.

Offering a physical safe haven for Hamas’s leaders is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Qatar’s bad behavior. Danielle Pletka explains:

Hamas’s leader Ismail Haniyeh and his cronies live a plush life in Doha. He is reputedly worth billions. Is all that dough under his mattress? Or in a bank in Qatar? I don’t know, but presumably the Treasury Department does.

Qatar has funneled billions to Hamas, an organization that currently holds 120—and five live American—hostages in Gaza. When the U.S. was playing the good guy in Afghanistan (before Biden’s disgraceful withdrawal), where were the exiled al Qaeda-loving emirs of the Taliban swanning about? Qatar.

Then there’s Qatar’s super-cozy relationship with Iran. Qatar’s cronies in the Washington lobbying world, at the Department of State, and—perhaps most importantly—at the White House, insist that the Qataris are only acting at America’s behest. Hamas? They wouldn’t be there if the U.S. hadn’t asked. Iranian money flowing through Qatari banks? Ditto.

Finally, . . . there’s Qatar’s nefarious influence on U.S. universities. Between the numerous “Qatar campuses” and the largely unreported cash gushing to U.S. institutions of higher ed, we shouldn’t be surprised to see Jew-hatred flourishing. And yes, there’s a direct correlation between that cash and anti-Semitism.

It’s way past time for the United States to get serious about this regime. And if the White House won’t, let’s hope that Congress will.