The Antisemitic Comment

The other day I was talking to my mom on the phone and she mentioned that she overheard an antisemitic comment a few days before.  I asked her what it was.

And at that point I braced myself.

Having been immersed in internet discussions for several years now, my mind turned to the myriad possibilities for what sort of antisemitic comment my mom overheard.  Which of the disgusting, dangerous, hateful, paranoid, and insane memes that are ubiquitous in Yahoo comments, Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Youtube comments, and all the rest of the trash out there, would she say she heard?

Would it be that Jews harvest organs from Arabs?

Would it be that Israel is like the Nazis? (which is often accompanied by the odd simultaneous claim that the Nazis weren't really that wrong.)

Would it be that Jews control the US government?

Would it be that Jews use blood to make matzoh?

Would it be that Jews are responsible for most or all wars, as articulated by the Hamas Charter and a favorite of internet commenters?

Would it be that Jews are part of a Rothschild / Illuminati conspiracy to enslave mankind?

Would it be that Jews are part of the alien lizard conspiracy to enslave mankind?  (This one was endorsed by Alice Walker, who is nonetheless a hero of supposed liberals such as David Harris Gershon.)

Would it be the nonsense about Jews celebrating 9/11 (it was really Palestinian Arabs) or Jews or Israel being responsible for 9/11?

Would it be the slander that Jews are responsible for pornography or interracial marriage?  (not that there is anything wrong with those things but some people think there is and 'blame' Jews)

Would it be one of the myriad fake quote circulating around the internet supposedly recording something that a Jew said about enslaving gentiles or Arabs?

Would it be another deliberate misunderstanding of the concept of the "chosen people" in Judaism?

Would it be the strange claim currently making the rounds that America had no enemies in the Middle East before our alliance with Israel?  (this one is especially stupid considering that the very first war the US ever fought was against a Middle Eastern power.)

Would it be some false equivalence between horrible ongoing contemporary violence and something like the King David Hotel bombing 70 years ago?

Would it be the USS Liberty hoax that some people can't let go of?

Would it be some glowing endorsement of a world figure who has said genocidal things about Jews, such as Daily Kos did?

I braced myself for what my mom was going to say....

And here's what it was:

He had gotten a cheap gift and said it was because it was from a Jewish person

(stunned)

THAT'S IT????  Jews are cheap????

No baking matzoh with blood, or harvesting organs, or lizard people???  No insane obsession about a boat that sunk 40 years ago???  No libels about buying the government, or pushing pornography???

It hit really me that with all of the genocidal, murderous, absolutely nonsensical trash that I constantly see, the most common negative comment against Jews absolutely does not register with me anymore.  You know what?  Call me cheap all you want!