This column by Eric Alterman made me feel better and worse simultaneously.
"And we've not heard much for a while from those hyping European anti-Semitism into something it's not and I wonder why... I read a lot of this crap, and was amazed that it was almost all coming from Americans, while being denied by European Jews themselves. Nobody seemed to care what they thought. Anyway, I was in synagogue the other night, and I picked up the most recent annual report of the World Union for Progressive Judaism... to see what was up with my European landsman, and lo and behold, the topic of anti-Semitism is not even mentioned. Now I'm not saying that it's not a problem at all - it is - but the hysteria of people like... a few other lunatic bloggers who shall go nameless demonstrates how easy it is to get attention for yourself so long as you play to people's fear, ignorance and prejudice. And I don't mean the anti-Semites in this case..."
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