“Latino Radio Show Stirs Concern Over Views on Jews”, featured in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, is an ugly read. The story focuses on a Latino radio show that consistently trash talks Israel in vitriolic statements that often boil over into blatant anti-Semitism.

Is this a symptom of a larger rift between the Latino and Jewish communities? As a former Catholic (and Latina for life), I’m worried that it is.

The anti-Semitism I grew up hearing in the neighborhood was startling: Jews killed Jesus, Jews were cheap, Jews think they’re better than everyone else, Jews are trying to control everything. And all this from people who’d had either no interactions with Jews or very positive ones. I just hope people listening to this radio show can distinguish between hate and reality.

Reality: If this guy was perpetrating his hate crimes against any other group, he would be off the air. When did this country decide that likening Jews to Nazis was kosher?