For elements of the anti-Israel right, it’s a time when everything old is becoming new again. 

So a half-century-old theory that the Jewish state deliberately attacked the USS Liberty during the Six-Day War now has renewed currency. 

Conspiracy-minded influencers hostile to Israel, like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, have promoted the notion — and it was a topic of discussion at the recent Turning Point USA conference.

One speaker said the official explanation “doesn’t feel like it’s good enough,” and floated his own wild speculation (involving the complicity of President Lyndon Baines Johnson).

The fact is that the devastating Israeli attack on the Liberty, which killed 34 American service members and........

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