The attention paid to this incident by Jewish groups is hilarious. Obviously, for someone who believes in the story, Jews must be responsible, simply because the gospel says so. No amount of protests from Jews would prompt Christians to rewrite their sacred texts.

This happened in the country most friendly to Israel and allegedly devoid of Nazi-style anti-semitism.

Jewish organizations slammed The Guardian’s Deborah Orr, who wrote that Israel agreed to exchange Shalit for a thousand prisoners because we value a Jew’s life above that of a Palestinian. Unfortunately, the opposite is true; our government values public opinion more than the lives of Jews who will be killed by the terrorists we have released. Indeed, the government places Palestinian lives above Jewish lives by refusing close artillery support for our troops operating in enemy areas.

The affair continues a recent history of show trials of high-ranking Jewish officials in the United States.

Jews ignore the problem when they equate anti-Israeli attitudes with anti-Semitism. The reverse is true: anti-Semitism tends to be expressed in legitimate anti-Israeli terms, but relatively few of Israel’s critics are anti-Semites. By clothing the problem in moralistic terms, we abandon any chance for solving it.

The issue is not whether Abbas personally recognizes that the event took place. He is no longer the Holocaust denier he was when he wrote his PhD thesis in Moscow decades ago. Palestinian Arabs, really, cannot teach their children compassion for the Jews who evicted them from their villages; and all those who live in the UNRWA camps were originally evicted. We Jews have good reason to defend the eviction, but we cannot expect the Arabs to share our beliefs.

And so the Holocaust lessons serve no rational purpose. They cheaply flout Jewish suffering in front of our future enemies, and teach them the opposite lesson: if respected European nations slaughtered their Jews, then Arabs can certainly get away with terrorizing Israelis.

It is also odd that the Israeli FM promotes foreign citizenship for Israeli citizens.

Berlusconi is not an anti-Semite, and there is no reason to depict him as such.

Self-appointed Jewish leaders take any mention of Jews as anti-Semitism because they would rather forget their own Jewishness.

But look at it this way: we want a person to be barred from our memorial site for his beliefs. How much more of a problem should we therefore have with Arabs living in the Land of Israel?

Orian reportedly withheld the workers’ passports and threatened to deport them if they rejected his substandard terms of employment. Illegal, yes, but is it immoral? At any time, the workers were free to be deported home.

The court set the outrageous bail because it deemed Orian a flight risk as a Jew.