When does hypersensitivity about potential antisemitic slights promote or unnecessarily highlight Jew-hating tropes? If a septuagenarian Irish pop singer wrote a song claiming that “They are all rich” and “They are all stingy,” what sensible Jewish listeners would raise their hands and admit that the tune must be about Jews because, over the years, imbeciles who have never met any Jews and know nothing about them have claimed that all Jews are fabulously wealthy and ungenerous? Such an engagement with centuries of hatred would be akin to accepting, or even expecting, the persecution itself. Yet when news broke that the Irish singer Van Morrison’s new album included a feeble faux R & B song called “They Own the Media,” many listeners were quick to jump to comparable conclusions.