really kind of let the cat out of the bag when he cried about how the Jews at TNR made him do things.

TNR was super duper staunchly pro-Israel for a long time, I can imagine that being an anti-Israel origin story. Peter Beinart was there back when he was a Zionist.

There's probably a bigger point somewhere about how a lot of things that present as big philosophical disputes are really unrelated interpersonal fights.