This cover image released by William Morrow shows "Katabasis" by R.F. Kuang. AP Conservative: Israelis a Literary ‘Crime’? Popular novelist R.F. Kuang is in an “awkward situation” as she “faces a serious allegation” that “she is giving credence to the idea that Israeli people exist,” because her latest book “includes a page with an Israeli character,” snarks Commentary’s Seth Mandel . Though she gives the character a “negative portrayal,” including any Jewish Israelis is “still a woke infraction.” Past critical outrage moved another “author to bowdlerize her own book because it referenced an Israeli person engaged in the crime of existing.” Rising to Kuang’s defense are anti-Zionist fans who “believe she is fully on their side when it comes to the question of whether Jews ought to be permitted to exist.” Oy.…