These Jewish anecdotes are not the same as anti-Semitic jokes.

Philip Larkin, a judge in 1977, threatened to throw himself out of a window if a particular book he favored was not short-listed, and a presenter once stilled the proceedings with anti-Semitic jokes.

He's also Jewish, an irreparable offense at a snobbish New England prep school, where his classmates crack anti-Semitic jokes and ready themselves for the Ivy League.

Green says, "I would never do a mean-spirited, anti-Semitic joke like that - it's both abhorrent and not funny.

However, he is sensitive to anti-Semitic jokes, though conversely, he also occasionally makes comments that play on Jewish stereotypes, usually in an ironic fashion.

Jews can hardly be expected to laugh at anti-Semitic jokes, blacks at racist jokes.

They're the only ones allowed to tell anti-Semitic jokes.

So David stands by, looking chagrined, while his new classmates crack anti-Semitic jokes and speculate about their own futures at Ivy League colleges.

It was also revealed he had made another anti-Semitic joke a few days previously.

Eubanks, a native of Flint, was interviewed about his views on the downsizing, and was filmed reciting an off-color anti-Semitic joke about AIDS.