Is Anti-Semitism Dying Out?

Billy Hallowell reports that incidents of anti-Semitic behavior have dropped to a wonderful low point. As it stands, this is good enough news to make the "good news" category...

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-anti-semitic-attacks-in-the-u-s-are-at-a-20-year-low/

...but I question whether the Anti-Defamation League is really tracking all anti-Semitic behavior without bias. The "Semitic" ethnic group includes Arabs as well as Jews. It is always good news when people stop showing whichever side of them is the ugliest to Jews; I wonder whether some of the decline in public nastiness is due to a recent trend for haters to spew at Arabs instead.

A commenter mentions high rates of anti-Semitic commenting on "liberal" or left-wing web sites, specifically the Daily Kos and Huffington Post. I've not noticed anti-Semitic comments so much as I've noticed just plain obnoxious comments. People aren't supporting, disputing, or adding to the posted stories at these sites; they're just venting their unhappiness by insulting everything and everybody in the ugliest words they can think of. (Often they don't even know how to spell the words.) There are plenty of trolls at The Blaze too. I don't know whether there's a tendency for left-wing or right-wing sites to attract more trolls, or whether there's a tendency for left-wing or right-wing web hosts to monitor their comments and block the trolls more efficiently.

I will, however, mention that http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/ is one high-traffic, left-leaning site that seems to be consistently well monitored and troll-free. The writers all seem to be Democrats but a high percentage of the writing is non-political. "Making Light" is recommended as another good source of songs, recipes, book discussions, and the other miscellanea for which the computer shows some of you read this blog.