For anti-Israelis, hummus remains on the front lines

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It's not as ubiquitous as mayonnaise or ketchup, but hummus, once exotic, is now widely available at supermarkets and restaurants.

This Middle Eastern chickpea paste has also gained a place in the antiIsrael arsenal, used by those seeking to isolate the Jewish state.

In 2005, Joseph Massad, then assistant professor at New York's Columbia University, included hummus in his anti-Israel remarks. He accused Zionists of the "theft of Palestinian Arab food (e.g., hummus, falafil)," according to a report at the time in The New York Sun.

In 2009, an anti-Israel group unsucessfully tried to persuade the Trader Joe's …