By the way, there are several websites where you can read English translations of Hamas’s charter and I recommend people do so. The incitement to kill Jews, not just Zionists or Israelis, is not hidden. Hamas accepts “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as a real document. But the high point…if that’s the word…is that they blame Jews for the French Revolution, both world wars, and…the Rotary Clubs.

Yes, apparently the Rotary is part of the international Jewish conspiracy. I can only fall back on Anna Russell’s assurance to her audience in her lecture on Wagner: “I’m not making this up, you know.”

Incidentally, the Detroit News rotates an op-ed slot on Saturdays to local religious leaders. The imam who takes his turn once referred to Sheik Ahmad Yassin, the founder and “spiritual leader” of Hamas, as a man “overflowing with love of humanity.”

And he may well have been, subject as usual to the Bensky Corollary to Everything–“overflowing with love of humanity…except for Jews.”