Reply #101: The US has FAR less history PERIOD.

[Paschall]

If you want to talk about Europe and use the US as a comparison (which you do implicitly in post after post) let's limit our discussion to comparable time periods, the last 230 years in Europe.

That means no more mention of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem and no more mention of the Inquisition. Deal?

But, on the other hand, if you like we could try employing the techniques used by the EU researchers in the study posted and start cataloguing anti-Semitic websites and publications in the US. We could also discuss the history of the German-American Bund and the Silver Shirts, the KKK, and other anti-Semitic groups. Whaddya think?

ON EDIT: To answer your question, yes I think anti-Semitic websites in the US should be shut down, particularly if they advocate or applaud violence against Jews. You'll note in the study posted that the definition of anti-Semitic acts included simple advocacy of violence against Jews, or glorification of the Nazis by displaying the swastika or other Nazi symbols. Either you must ignore that category of anti-Semitic act in Europe, or you must support criminalizing it in the US. Otherwise--as concerns this category of anti-Semitic act--you're getting your panties in a bunch over a European problem, but turning the other cheek to the same phenomenon in the US. No pun intended.