"I see where you're coming from."
Sorry Bobad, replied to this earlier but my posting went walkabout.
I read the Jacobson piece at the time, but was a little nonplussed to understand how opposing massacres, human rights abuses, war crimes... can be construed as 'Antisemitism" - unless he and you are, like Keith, claiming that none of these things happened - is that the case, d'you think.
Have certainly come across racism in Ireland, mainly from people who have lived in the UK and caught the infection there.
I can't recall any Antisemitism here (sorry - don't count bringing relief to a besieged people - that's humanitarianism as far as I'm concerned - maybe you could put me right on that one).
The Irish in general I find friendly, hospitable, generous and gregarious (little curious about you maybe, what you do and who you are), but I've never found that in any way offensive or threatening.
Not so long ago there was a ceremony to welcome "blow ins" who have come to live here permanently.
The one appalling exception is with Travellers - that seems to have almost reached ethnic cleansing proportions.   
There is a some healthy discussion of the implications of this at present - even some politicians seem to have become aware of the situation, but a long way to go yet.
I said elsewhere that I can't imagine anything more Antisemitic than hiding behind the six million dead of Auschwitz and such places, to defend proven war crimes and atrocities.
If the six million had been given the luxury of graves, I have no doubt that they would be spinning in them - shame on you and Jacobson.
Jim Carroll