"if you see or read it in context, there is a comment in there about people who are fanatical and who can't take a joke... satirising anti-Semitism, while making a more general point that we should all be able to laugh at ourselves." (Niall Stokes, editor of Hot Press Magazine)

The 'can't you take a joke?' response to someone objecting to being attacked or insulted is the most FACILE and IRRITATING of offensive self-justifications, and the person who resorts to it, WHATEVER THE 'CONTEXT', is a fool & a coward [that means you, Stokes, & you, Tiernan: hope you are both laughing!].

I lost I know not how many cousins-once-removed in Romania & Lithuania among those 6m. Could somebody please tell me why I should be expected to laugh at that?