Is there anything funnier than a good joke about a Jewish merchant? Some people at the Anti-Defamation League don't think so! They complained after Obama's National Security Adviser, James L. Jones, told this joke to a pro-Israeli crowd.

James Jones was speaking to a gala in honor of the 25th anniversary of the pro-Israeli think tank, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and thought he'd warm up the crowd with a joke. As summarized by The Forward:


Jewish merchants, amirite? ( Actually, the the audience largely lapped it up. And, as a Jew, I am only offended by the delivery. But, predictably, the Anti-defamation league was not pleased. (And the White House did not include the joke in its official transcript.) So James L. Jones apologized this afternoon with this sad statement:


And that's how James L. Jones became the punchline to a Jewish merchant joke. National Security Advisers, amirite?
[The Forward]