[Petronski]

If you would read the virulent anti-Semitic sites you would see that they jumped all over the incident to justify anti-Semitism with claims that "see, Jews are also racists."

Well, those people are always going to say something like that.

As for his publicist, if he is clueless or lying , that's not going to help matters.

[Petronski]

Here's the main evidence in the JJ article:

According to sources familiar with Richards, the actor was raised Catholic. A biography of him on the Wikipedia web site lists no religion, but does say Richards is very involved in the Masons.

Unnamed "sources familiar?"