As it happens, his torturers stood under a portrait of Hitler, taunting Timerman for being Jewish. They were government goons who had been trained by students of real Nazis whom Peron brought to Argentina and put in charge of his secret police.

And yet Kristol thought that by linking Timerman to Graiver, none of this mattered.

Lipsky — read your words through one more time. The next time an antisemitic state comes for a Jew and tortures him, do you really want to say that it’s all OK as long has he had some shady associates?

Shame on you, and on Tablet for publishing this kind of material.