Step away from the crazy person

I know some of you think I'm overly sensitive to anti-Jewish/anti-Israel sentiment. Maybe that's true. I do believe it's important to shine a light on anti-Semitism and shame the person involved, in order to teach lessons to other people. By no means, however, do I think the majority, or even a significant minority, of Americans are anti-Semitic. I admit Jews have it pretty good in the U.S.A. A poster at the lefty blog Daily Gotham doesn't think so:

Forget Mel Gibson's drunken, anti-Semitic rants. Throughout America anti-Semitism is rampant. In fact, hate crimes against Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, Hispanics, etc. are rampant. Mix this new Culture of Intolerance, routinely fed and encouraged by the Republican Party and its media lapdogs, with the acceptance of torture and detention without due process and you get an America that is walking the path that Germany walked in the 1930's.

Wow. Yeah. America is just about to round up the Jews (and Muslims, homosexuals, Hispanics and of course "etc.") onto trains in order to have free labor and then kill us at will. We're totally on the path. I can hear the train coming. Choo choo.

Or, more like koo-koo:

In Indiana, a prominent politician told a group of Jews that their opinion on the recitation of Christian prayers at legislative sessions didn't matter because they only made up 2% of the population.

In Delaware, Jewish and Muslim families were insulted, humiliated, and threatened until they were forced to flee the town due to threatened violence by right wing Christian fanatics who were pushing Christian prayer in school.

Ann Coulter advocates bombing the NY Times building, attacking liberals with baseball bats, and the assassination of a Supreme Court Justice and a Congressman.

Wait, what? What does Ann Coulter's comments on the Times or liberals or Supreme Court justices have to do with anti-Semitism?

I hate that hysterical people like this exist, it makes it much harder to get people to care when actual instances of anti-Semitism take place. How is anyone supposed to pay attention to his examples of Indiana and Delaware when he randomly throws in an irrelevant anti-Coulter rant? With friends like these....