The New Yorker is considered a top magazine, its readership would have a significant % of Jews.

Well said Leon.

On the whole we are a pathetic lot, always trying to be smart and finding ways to rationalise the irrational.

Again, I agree with Gil. This particular response by B’nai Brith was mealy-mouthed, flat in tone due to absolute lack of passion or conviction, and completely inappropriate. Is this soft-pedalling because the woman is Jewish? We really do have to do better than this.

Why do we want to go easy on, or applaud, celebrities just because they’re Jewish? It’s ridiculous. With the death of Joan Rivers, that other loud-mouthed American comedienne, we had Benjamin Netanyahu saying all sorts of wonderful things about her and lamenting her death, just because she was Jewish. To my knowledge she’d contributed nothing to her Jewish heritage; all she’d cared about was her fame and how she looked, the notoriety or ‘splash’ she could cause. I thought her a narcissistic, extremely unattractive, vulgar person, lacking in any kind of wit that might have made her funny. It seems Lena Dunham could be the same.

Are we supposed to excuse people for their lack of integrity, sensitivity, civility and awareness of others, as well as use of stereotypes that have grown from anti-Semitism, just because they happen to be New Yorkers who are also comedians? It doesn’t cut the mustard with me, as the colloquialism goes.

Hi David,

Have you heard the one about the Jew who got on a tram in Berlin in 1935 and saw a Jewish friend immersed in reading the Nazi newspaper?
Astonished, he asked his friend, “Why?”
Friend’s response: ” When I read the other papers, it’s all doom and gloom: Nuremberg Laws, boycotts, exclusions from universities etc etc, but THIS paper tells me that we rule the world- the banks, industry, the arts etc etc.”

Funny enough for you?

Peace and justice.

Yes; but coincidentally, her literary piece was published hard on the heels of our Lynch scandal, so people are sensitised.
And don’t forget the recent manifestations of all the warm love, friendship and multiculturalism that we witnessed during those carnivals in the streets of Sydney, when thousands marched down George Street, yelling “Death to Israel,” “Jews…..”,
and other expressions of love for humanity.
There is a global climate; her literary effort reflects it.
Paranoia is bad; ostrich behaviour is worse.
We’ve been here before.

Actually Kevin, Leon Poddebsky is correct. I too have hear and read we were compared not only dogs but to apes and pigs as well. I’m don’t usually take down names as to whom said what where and when, but I will next time as it is quite frequently said, Mainly by Muslims.