The Obama administration’s decision to award a Freedom Medal, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to former Irish PM and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has left many in the Jewish community dumb-founded. How could the administration honor someone whose signal achievement at the UN was the Durban Conference on Racism, which produced an infamous document equating Zionism with racism? ZOA went nuts. So did the RJC. Jen Rubin was the first (to my knowledge) to make a lot of noise about the pick. And we chimed in as well. But there’s no real surprise there. But then ABC picked up the story. And now AIPAC has blasted the pick, sparking its first public confrontation with this administration: