Those readers of a certain age may remember as joke from back it was assumed that a lot of Jewish people owned local stores. This was before shopping malls, on-line shopping and Wal-Mart. The joke went something like this:
Question: What is the happiest of Jewish holidays?
Answer: It's Christmas. Just walk by a Jewish home on Christmas Eve and you can hear the people singing, "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" as they count their income from Christmas shopping at their stores.
It's a rather mild anti-Jewish joke. In fact, one could argue that it isn't even anti-Jewish since at the time the joke became popular a lot of small Southern American towns and Maritime Canadian towns had stores that were called "Jew stores." These were small department stores that sold things that the general stores didn't sell, and they were owned by Jewish people, and the heaviest selling that the stores had were during the Christmas season and the owner appreciated the custom.
It's a joke that wouldn't fly today because people don't have a sense of humor and they are as ready to find an insult as a white-trash tobacco chewing hillbilly is when one tells him that his plow horse looks broken down. White-trash (meaning the old Scots-Irish) were always known for being touchy and quick to take offense, and one of the things that that bunch (of which this writer is one) managed to do was to make the larger society as thin-skinned as they are. The whole SJW nonsense and cancel culture grew from somewhere, and it probably came from when white-trash got into the positions of university professors and infested their students with their ancestral urge to duel or fight instead of argue and reason.
But to get back to Jews and Christmas.
Have you noticed, dear reader, that nowadays (what an awful word! It should be "now days") Jewish people are not loath to make fun of Christmas? They'll make jokes about about how Christians (actually "kind of Christians") spending lots and lots of money to celebrate the birth of Christ at the best and the expectation of Santa Claus at the worst. They'll make jokes about the Paternity of Christ and pretty much call Mary a victim of a centurion lover or rapist, or that God the Father had raped her through the Holy Ghost. They'll joke about many Christians eating a baked ham on Christmas day while Jesus was a Jew. The jokes are endless and public, and are, for some reason, not expected to be offensive to believing Christians; never mind the "kind of Christians."
But, is it not a strange thing that Christians, even Christian comedians or secular "Christian" comedians, never joke about about Passover, Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur or Hanukkah. To do so, in today's world, would be perceived as some sort of "hate speech."
And so we have a one way street which involves not only Jewish people, but also Muslims, as regards to Christianity. The Christian is the boxing bag which he or she is not allowed, in the popular culture in the West, to fight back against. And to even make a joke is considered violence.
