We narrowly averted an international incident.
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Ah, thatāll be kippers, then. 
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This guy walks into a store and asks the shopkeeper āDo you have any Polish herring?ā
The storekeeper replies āUm, are you Polish?ā
The guy becomes irate: āWhat does that have to do with anything?! If I asked for kosher lox would you ask if I was Jewish? If I asked for German bratwurst would you ask if I was German?! If I asked for lutfisk would you ask if I was Swedish?! Seriously, WHY DID YOU ASK IF I WAS POLISH?!ā
To which the shopkeeper replied, āWell, because this is Home Depot.ā
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Is this what you call reverse anti-Semitism?
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Nah. Itās originally a Jewish joke. I just moved stuff around a bit to fit the discussion. Multipurpose joke.
ā¦Iāve heard that joke before, and only heard it as a Polish joke, with the punchline being that Polish people are stupid, Iām not sure what stereotype it would be going after with Jewish people. Itās a Polish joke. If you google parts of the joke with ājewishā before it, the Polish joke still comes up, with the Jewish part still in it.
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Perhaps your law firm should lobby the ADL to allow public jokes about Jews, just for the sake of fairness.
We tell more Jewish jokes than anyone.
The original version of the joke (or perhaps just a version) uses a guy from a kibbutz as the butt of the joke. (Theyāre the āschmeilā in Israeli humor. Nice, skinny, stupid and wore floppy hats. Gilligan from Gilligans Island was copied from the humor.
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