I assume there is a law of defamation in the U.S. and it also has the first amendment.

   How are those two reconciled normally in the U.S.?

   I take it Ms.Greenbaum was called an anti-semite because her vote was,in effect, against a Jewish school.

   There are such things as Jewish anti-Jews (a more correct phrase than 'anti-semite'). Alas.

   The comment of the anon blogger strikes me as that of someone angry and defensive and preferring violence,albeit verbal,to argument. Which reminds me of loads of people.






       Ivor