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Silly "controversy", I saw it it terms of thrifty, not cheap like the Dutch. But they should have known better. Racial/religious commentary like this will be turned against politicians. As to the ADL's rather nebulous contension that they need to understand the background of antisemitism, and how a comment like this will be misused, their rather long apology indicates they do.
The ADL’s a joke and always has been. They have hypersensitive feelers out for conservative American politicians, but utterly ignore the likes of Sharpton, Wright, Farrakhan and Ahmadenijad. The latter, of course, is understandable, because he’d probably use anything they said to his advantage. But nobody really takes them seriously, except for those conservative American politicians for whom they have these hypersensitive feelers out.
There is a difference between subtly shaded anti-Semitism and Jew-hatred. I have no use for an organization that only pays attention to the first and has no adequate response for the second.
I'll disagree with you, there.
Politicians ... and all the rest of us, for that matter ... must learn to tell the perpetually offended to shove it.