Are Jews ever responsible for "anti-Semitism"?

Are Jews, their behavior and actions, and the policies they promote everresponsible for genuine anti-Jewish sentiment? Apparently not, according to Yair Rosenberg, who recently published an article on the subject for Tablet Magazine. In fact, honestly inquiring as to whether or not Jewish actions and behaviors are directly tied to criticism and hostility towards Jews is itself “anti-Semitic,” Rosenberg argues.A popular, mainstream Swedish radio host, Helena Groll, had the temerity to ask Israel’s ambassador to Sweden whether or not Jews are responsible for rising “anti-Semitism” i.e., criticism of Jews and the Jewish state. Groll’s question has caused an outrage, and prompted Rosenberg to write the following for Tablet:

There have been many reactions to the recent deadly violence against Jews in European capitals, from Paris to Copenhagen. Some have expressed solidarity with the Jewish community. Others have worked to reaffirm the European values of tolerance and pluralism. And then there’s Helena Groll, a presenter on Sweden’s public broadcast Sveriges Radio, who suggested yesterday that Jews are to blame for their own persecution.
In an interview with Isaac Bachman, Israel’s ambassador to Sweden, Groll asked: “Do the Jews themselves have any responsibility in the growing anti-Semitism that we see now?” Bachman, naturally, was taken aback. “I reject the question altogether,” he said. “The question of how a woman contributes to the fact of being raped is irrelevant altogether. I don’t think there is any provocation that Jews are doing–they just exist.”

But Groll wasn’t finished attempting to pin the blame for European intolerance on its victims, and proceeded to suggest that Jews in Europe might have it coming due to the actions of completely different Jews in the Middle East. “But a lot of people would look at the Middle East today and say there are various conflicts that we know between the Israelis and the Palestinians,” she went on, “and a lot of people might say, ‘we see the Gaza war, we see things that have been happening, that Israel and Jews in Israel have a responsibility to reactions that are coming?’”
Listen to the entire exchange below:
After outrage on Swedish social media, Sveriges Radio apologized for the interview and purged it from the episode’s online recording. But while the station’s move is commendable, erasing the evidence of bigotry does not actually amount to confronting the bigotry. After all, if Groll is right that “a lot of people” think European Jews should be held accountable for the actions of Israel, Sweden has a much bigger problem than one blithely bigoted radio presenter.
Indeed, the fact that a respected host on Sweden’s public radio could so nonchalantly give voice to the oldest of anti-Semitic tropes–that Jews cause themselves to be hated, and that Jews anywhere are responsible for the actions of Jews everywhere–without any awareness of the bigotry of her comments suggests a much deeper societal failure. […]
There are many reasons why European elites have had trouble acknowledging and combating anti-Jewish sentiment. Interviews like the one conducted by Groll–and like that conducted by the BBC’s Tim Willcox, who also suggested European Jews were accountable for Israel’s actions–suggest another: that there is much latent acceptance of arguments that blame Jews for their own predicament, even among enlightened and educated professionals.
Until such debilitating assumptions about Jews, which have bedeviled the European mind for centuries, are exposed and expunged, the continent will have little chance of meeting the challenge of protecting its Jews.

Boy, these Jews sure do have a lot of nerve.
Basically, the argument Rosenberg – an argument that is mainstream within and representative of the organized Jewish community – is making is that any manifestation of genuine anti-Jewish sentiment and even criticism of Jews is fundamentally irrational, misguided, and solely driven by a blind hatred and bigotry towards Jews. Jewish behavior has nothing at all to do with anyone, anywhere criticizing Jews.
“Anti-Semitism,” which simply means exposing and highlighting basic facts about Jews as well as proposing honest, legitimate criticisms directed against Jews, the organized Jewish community, and the Jewish state of Israel, is written off as a pathological mental illness by the vast majority of Jews, and certainly the organized Jewish community. They literally think that they are above criticism, and anyone challenging them is an irrational, hate-filled Nazi who wants to commit another “Holocaust”.
Do you see how delusion and absurd these people are? It’s becoming more and more apparent as each day passes.