So far it’s been a good week for Jews according to JTA:

A German-based campaign to educate people about an Islamic holiday called Al Quds Day, which is sometimes referred to “Let’s Wipe Israel Off The Map” Day, has resulted in the removal of the “holiday” from interfaith calendars. Don’t worry, you weren’t getting the day off anyway.

And in Prague, Jews and non-Jews, including “prominent personalities and journalists”, gathered in a counterprotest to a neo-Nazi demonstration and outmatched the Aryans in numbers and might. The neo-Nazis were there to picket the German embassy for imprisoning Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel, which led 84-year-old
Auschwitz survivor Jan Fischer to ask: “How did these kids become such idiots?”
(Yes, it is against the law in Germany, as well as the Czech Republic, to deny the actual historic event called the Holocaust. Here in America, where we can’t point to an entire town and say “all the Jews that used to live were killed by Nazis,” we call Holocaust denial free speech.)

The bad news is that a scapegoat had to be hoisted and it had to be a Jew. (Don’t feel bad. With a nickname like Scooter, who knew?)