From the crass comedienne Roseanne Barr blasting Israel as a "Nazi state" to pro-Palestinian protesters in Florida screaming to "go back to the oven" – is the Arab-Israeli conflict sparking strong emotions that are crossing a line between expressing legitimate disapproval of Israel’s war tactics and deep-routed anti-Semitism?

Today, the New York Post points out the recent anti-Israel rants from Barr, who is Jewish. The Post writes:

Roseanne Barr is on the side of the Palestinians in the conflict in the Gaza Strip. "Israel is a NAZI state," she blogged with capital letters on her website. And on her January 6 talk show on radio station KCAA-AM in San Bernardino, CA, she blasted conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg’s "right-wing Israel uber alles crap." Roseanne, who is Jewish, also denounced "warmongering American rabbis … who are enriching themselves on weapon sales." She said that pro-Israel Christian evangelicals believe, "The faster every Jew in Israel dies, the faster the evangelicals mistakenly believe that their idea of Jesus will return." At one point she proclaimed, "I hate everybody, I hope the whole world blows itself up!" She ended her show with her own peace plan: "Israel has enough money to pay each and every Palestinian to not shoot at them." But 33 seconds later she had moved on, saying, "I gotta lose some weight, my hips ache."

Saying "I hope the whole world blows itself up!" and then "I gotta lose some weight" in the same segment just shows how she shouldn’t be taken seriously. The latest statistics also sparked more rage in Barr, who blogged that more Israelis should die to be punished for their crime. You can tell she means business because she’s used all capital letters:

THE TORAH TOLD US AN EYE FOR AN EYE, BECAUSE PEOPLE WERE GETTING KILLED FOR STEALING BREAD. THE TORAH TOLD US THAT THE PUNISHMENT MUST FIT THE CRIME OR IT IS IMMORAL!! AN EYE FOR AN EYE WOULD MEAN TEN DEAD PALESTINIANS, NOT 688. JEWS SPEAK OUT AGAINST ISRAELI AGGRESSION AND OCCUPATION AND WAR MONGERING … THIS IS HOW WE CAN SAVE ISRAEL!!!!

If you think Barr’s remarks are inflammatory, take a look at what some Floridian protesters had to say last week: the Jews should "go back to the oven." 

Fox reports:

Separated by battle lines and a stream of rush-hour traffic outside a federal courthouse last week, at least 200 pro-Palestinian demonstrators faced off against a smaller crowd of Israel supporters. Most of the chants were run-of-the-mill; men and women waving Palestinian flags called Israel’s invasion of Gaza a "crime," while the pro-Israel group carried signs calling the Hamas-run territory a "terror state." But as the protest continued and crowds grew, one woman in a hijab began to shout curses and slurs that shocked Jewish activists in the city, which has a sizable Jewish population. "Go back to the oven," she shouted, calling for the counter-protesters to die in the manner that the Nazis used to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust. "You need a big oven, that’s what you need," she yelled.

Fox News asked their readers if they think the protestors crossed a line. When protesters are screaming for the extermination of the Jews in the same manner as used by the Nazis during the Holocaust — it’s safe to say yes, it’s anti-Semitic.

According to the most recent statistics, the Israeli military operation in Gaza has killed at least 680 people and wounded more than 3,000 since its launch, Palestinian medical sources said Wednesday. And tragically, nearly a third of the deaths — 30 percent — are women and children, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, citing statistics released Tuesday by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The number of innocent victims is alarming, yes, but let’s all take a deep breath and think about things logically. We all hope for peace in the Middle East and our prayers are with the fallen. But let’s all not forget our history.