A poisoned narrative

Barack Obama's new memoir is riddled with historical falsehoods and distortions about Israel

British Mandate Palestine, 1930s

When he was President of the United States, Barack Obama presided over an administration marked by unprecedented hostility to Israel. While he intoned the usual boiler-plate pieties of “candid friendship” deployed by the anti-Israel left and he maintained the security funding for Israel whose erosion would have outraged t…