From Newsweek, an interview with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad on building the institutions of self-government; an interview with Shimon Peres on negotiations with the Palestinians; and an interview with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on nuclear proliferation and a two-state solution. Gershom Gorenberg on the implosion of the Israeli Left. From The Nation, the Jewish push for peace is surging through the grassroots, but leaders and policy-makers are still turning a deaf ear; Israel's latest strategy for responding to allegations of human rights abuses: kill the messenger; and Tom Dine, former head of AIPAC, now works for a two-state solution and on improving US-Syrian relations. Is AIPAC still the chosen one? A popular president and dissent within the advocacy ranks could lead to a showdown on Middle East policy. Jeffrey Goldberg interviews Jeremy Ben-Ami of J-Street. Nightmare on J Street: Why can't Arab Americans work for peace, too? Matthew Yglesias on the battle for American Jews. From Dissent, why are Jews liberal? Michael Walzer on an alternative to Norman Podhoretz. How much do world crises affect anti-Semitism today: Hate crimes happen everywhere — even in the college campus bubble. The backlash of secondary anti-Semitism: In a German study, the notion of ongoing Holocaust-related suffering among Jews apparently increased feelings of anti-Semitism. It's a terrible shame that Ahmadinejad does not join that illustrious company of Jews who become Jewish persecutors.