Really an odd column considering David Brooks' support for Netanyahu's Israel. Identity politics there is asking the simple question, are you a Jew or not? Israel is a Jewish state, and becoming more so. If Israel is one state, then it is locking up Palestinians behind walls simply because of their identity. How is Trump's nativism any different than Bibi's? Netanyahu privately has said there will never be two states.
For the record, I wish I could vote for Bernie for President. I would love to see that Jewish man in the White House. My comment isn't anti-Jewish, but is instead anti-hypocrisy. 
And also for the record, I am very much a liberal, but think it is a very fair for Arizonans to ask about immigration and especially the over ten million people who have come into the country illegally. Too bad Congress never got around to Comprehensive Immigration bills. 
Hugh Massengill, Eugene

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/opinion/david-brooks-the-age-of-benjamin-netanyahu.html?_r=0