Ron Lauder, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, has spoken out against the “rising tide of Jew hatred” in the United States, citing as two examples, the banning of the Holocaust graphic novel Maus in a rural Tennessee school district and Whoopi Goldberg’s unsettling enormity on “The View.” If the public still remembers, Goldberg was suspended for two weeks from the ABC News program after claiming Hitler’s attempted extermination of European Jewry had nothing to do with race. Neither incident in my opinion portends “a rising tide of anti-Semitism,” although the attack on a synagogue in a Fort Worth suburb by a...