Anti-Semitic journalists, however, keep surfacing from all professional backgrounds. Take Matt Moss, for example, recently in the New York Times travel section, who in a breath,taking combination of unprofessionalism, prejudice (pre-judging something without so much as a current look at it), lack of curiosity, boasted that although he is Jewish, the only country on the entire planet he does not want to visit is Israel. He did not even have the grace to acknowledge that — in an earlier time, not so long ago, without an Israel as the sole country that offered sanctuary to boatloads of people fleeing the Third Reich’s killing machine while other countries, including the United States, either turned boats away or let them sink — he too might well have ended up in an oven or as a cake of curio soap.

Or take Gregg Easterbrook, who in 2003 was fired from ESPN for a blog he had written for the New Republic Online, in which he described Jews in the film industry, including Disney’s CEO, Michael Eisner, as “Jewish executives who worshiped money above all…by promoting for profit the adulation of violence.”

The list could go on and on, but there is another point:

Thomas’s attitude is not only unkind and unfair to Jews, it is also unfair to Palestinians. The media’s Israel-bashing Jews-haters are not only harming Jews; they are harming the Palestinians as well. They have established a culture of tolerance for Arab abuse of the Palestinians: the 1970 massacres of the Palestinians in Jordan, for example and the 1980s massacres of Palestinians in Lebanon, and the abuse of Palestinians in Syria and Iraq— before and after Saddam’s fall — all received little coverage compared to the media’s overkill fixation on Israel.

How do the media serve the Palestinians when they choose to demonize Israel, the only country that allows the Palestinians not only full freedom of speech and of the press, but also employment at the highest levels, from full membership in Israel’s Parliament [Knesset], to serving as a justice on the Supreme Court, or appointments as Ambassador in the Diplomatic Corps? Do the Turks, for example, do that for their minorities? Do the Egyptians? Does Jordan? Does any Arab country?