I've noticed friends on Facebook etc. posting (or re-posting) a photo of some neo-Nazi types on an L.A. overpass giving the Hitler salute above banners that say Kanye West was right about the Jews. People are shocked and outraged.

Assuming the protest is real (more on that below), I think some perspective is needed on antisemitism. There are a small number of violent antisemites in the U.S., who probably number in the several dozens but are capable of terror.

Then there is a somewhat larger group -- a few thousand -- of hard-core Jew-haters for whom remarks like those of Kanye West are a feast they will dine on for years. Other than that, there is very little antisemitism in the United Staes.

The way to deal with the violent ones is to get armed, trained, and prepared. The way to deal with the non-violent ones is usually to ignore them. They are like flashers in trench coats: they do it for the scream. So, don't scream.

If you must deal with antisemites, mock them. This is my approach. I have to say that even though I am one of the most visibly Jewish people in journalism, I get almost no antisemitic abuse. I ignore antisemites, or mock them. It works.

I do feel that there is a perverse kind of confirmation we sometimes seek from these antisemitic spectacles -- almost as if there is a comfort to know that hatred is still out there, and therefore we can maintain a victimized world view.

Certainly, the people expressing shock and outrage in sharing the photo of the demonstration have done much more to spread the message of the neo-Nazis than they could ever possibly have hoped to do themselves on a freeway bridge.

Notably, the person who posted the most widely-circulated photo is a left-wing activist. She did not provide the location (said by some on Twitter to be the La Tijera overpass). She also posted images of antisemitic flyers in Beverly Hills.

I think these are all probably real events, but consider the source -- and consider that just last year, activists posed as white supremacists in a failed effort to tank the gubernatorial campaign of Glenn Youngkin in Virgina.

Democrats are desperate, and they know the polls are moving against them, and they are delighted -- or determined -- to reinforce the idea that society is beset by extremists who have friends in the "MEGA MAGA" Republican Party.

So we can't assume these neo-Nazis are who they say they are. Next time, whoever takes the photo should tell us where they are, so we can repeat that scene from the Blues Brothers with the "Illinois Nazis" protesting on a bridge.