Calling a Jew a Kike, or a Black the N word, is simply wrong, period. There is no excuse for it.
That is amazing that this week's Torah portion talks about the very subject that I brought up, how Moses was not let into the land of Israel because he hit the rock instead of talking to it.
As it so happens, I once wrote a letter to Rabbi Kahane, to tell him that while I agreed with his essential message, that it might be more universally accepted if he presented it in a softer manner. He wrote back rejecting what I said, saying that he has his way of doing things that he feels is the right thing to do.
Today I was at a Rabbi's house where I faced a similar situation. The Rabbi had several young women over as guests; I was his only male guest. Lucky me, right?
Well, anyway, at one point, one of the young women, although she claimed to be an even more politically conservative person than I was, was also pro-abortion, and pro-euthanasia. In other words, she supported the right of mothers to get doctors to murder their helpless unborn babies, and the right of families to kill of the elderly in their family, if that elderly person is just too inconvenient for them to take care of. She likewise supported the taking of the life of Terri Schiavo.
Well, I was completely shocked and outraged that a Jewish woman who is supposedly religious (although she is new at it), would have such anti-life, and therefore anti-Torah values. But I was also a guest at the house, and besides, this woman had treated me with the utmost respect, so I really had to use all my self-control to simply not blow up at her and tell her what a horrible lack of values she has, how she is embracing death the way the moslems do and so on. In other words, I had to find some soft way to respond to her, that did not hurt her feelings, because a harsher approach would have just made her more defensive.
Since it was just a Shabbat table, and not some classroom or debating society, the issue was not really settled at all, but maybe by her seeing my shocked reaction, a part of her might realize that her views are not exactly kosher.