I suggest that people look at what the Holy Father has said about anti- semitism. During the interwar period, sentiments against the Jews everywhere in Europe was really vicious. To be sure, some of it had to do with bad behavior of some Jews, but has to be revisited to see that it infected even good men like Chesterton. The pope knows this,knows that it blinded the German people to the horrible implications of Nazi policy, to the fact that the Nazis did not just DISLIKE or DESPISE Jews but hated them as the devil hates God.
I wasn't talking about the Holy Father's views on anti-Semitism. What I was getting at was what I perceived as a vile insinuation that people (I am not among them) who criticize the Holy Father's ecumenical visit to a synagogue are somehow automatically anti-Semitic.
I just thought it was kind of a low blow; that's all. I've seen this kind of thing from Mr. Shea in the past. He's a good guy, but he gets carried away rhetorically.