In my continuing self-editing (I’m a self-editing Jew!), I must point out that I managed to recall that “practise” is the correct spelling of the verb, but I still misspelled it in my comment.

As such, the very presence of Ben Stein as the host of the film is a calculated tactic to improve the effectiveness of the deceit. It is such a clever masterstroke that Stein himself and his production team don’t need to raise the charge of anti-Semitism themselves. Clueless *pro-evolution* writers will do it for them. As your example attests.

re: PZ Myers said *”Ben Stein daubing himself with the ashes of Dachau”* That is soooo anti-semitic…Is it only anti-semitism then, when left wing Jewish ideas are under scrutiny? Is ok to mock right wing jewish thought,tactical positioning, and idiocy ala Stein in such a Jew bashing way then?

Probably “the real cmf” is pretty-much alone in considering that imagery to be “Jew bashing”, but as a (very much non-practising) Jew myself let me point out that the genuinely offensive fact is that Ben Stein is, in PZ’s evocative words, “daubing himself with the ashes of Dachau”, playing on his own Jewish heritage while presenting the foolish argument that there are (any kind of) parallels between insisting on real scientific credentials when claiming to practice science and systematically murdering millions of people because of their (racial) heritage.