SPENGLER: Why Did Middle Eastern Christians Drive Sen. Cruz from the Stage?

When Sen. Ted Cruz told an audience of Middle Eastern Christians that they have no better friend than Israel, he stated the literal truth: the Assyrian Christians of Iraq’s north are at greater risk than any Christian population in the world, and their only effective defenders are the Kurdish Peshmerga, which was trained and armed by Israel almost from inception. These facts are widely known. Why, then, did Sen. Cruz’s remarks provoke an eruption of Jew-hatred? A large part of the audience could not control its rage, and drove their keynote speaker from the podium. There’s a history, and a sad one.

Related: Lee Smith: Unsavory Bedfellows; It’s not easy protecting the Christians of the Middle East.