Jews & the internet

Jewish State of Affairs

Having said the above, it seems that these days any negative mention of a Jew or the Jewish community gets us into an uproar.  We end up helping the "enemy" sometimes when we do this by a) giving people the impression that we're always complaining and by b) drawing attention to something that other people would have ignored.  Below are two examples:

1) The Passion of the Christ - I think we all know this story - Jews made a huge stink, caused Christians to go on the defensive, and then realized that the movie wasn't so terrible after all.  How many people went to see the movie because of the controversy?  We'll never know, but I suspect we aided Mel Gibson in lining his pocketbook by talking about it and bringing it to people's attention.

2) The recent uproar about Jew Watch, a Nazi, anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic site which is listed as the number one (or two or three) search result for the term "Jew" (there is a good reason why I'm not linking to it, which will be explained later).  Since the controversy started, Jew Watch went from around the 150,000th most popular internet site to the 98,000th most popular site on the internet (to get the Alexa toolbar, which allows you to see website popularity, go here - it's quite useful).

I think most people will agree that both of the above examples show that even negative publicity is good publicity.