We must learn more about Judaism to keep anti-Semitic hysteria at bay

Defenders of racism and political incorrectness go for hysteria and witch hunting analogies to cover mild protest, writes Terry Prone

I’M PREJUDICED about Jews. Might as well get it said upfront, before readers find it threaded throughout this column. It comes from an old pattern whereby someone, after perhaps a dozen encounters with individuals from a particular race, extrapolates from those encounters into a general view of the totality, and is of course to be questioned as a result.

The pattern is often inherited, and may also, in my case, be partly hereditary.