Anti-Semitism is Corny

Just as Jews were celebrating the High Holidays, a major, major reason for communal distress was found in New Jersey. Anti-Semitic cornfields.

Fox News reports,

As Jews around the world gathered in synagogues last Friday night to mark the start of Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — someone was apparently busy fashioning a massive swastika into several acres of a cornfield in Washington Township, N.J.

The swastika was spotted by a New Jersey State Police helicopter during a routine maintenance mission.

Local residents told the Star Ledger newspaper of Newark, N.J., that they were unaware of the reviled symbol of hate.

Now, some of you may think this is an isolated incident. It is not. In fact, it happens all the time. Like say, just last millennium.

Another swastika — this one estimated to be 130 square feet— was carved in the field in July 1998, and a bigger 600-by-600 foot version of the Nazi symbol was found in a nearby cornfield almost a year later, the newspaper reported. No arrests were made in either incident.

Please, friends, try to avoid (after nightfall) cornfields (in the Newark environs) until these cornball hate criminals are apprehended. At least, don’t frequent them alone. I realize this is a tremendous inconvenience, but one must be cautious.

The Anti-Defamation League said the swastika “shows the persistence of anti-Semitism and hate.”

Obviously, it goes without saying that the ADL should immediately be sent a check.