 Prominent sports journalists, Jewish groups, and Jewish writers published sharp criticism of Snyder and the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s claims of anti-Semitism, referring in various opinion pieces and public statements to their statements as, “breathtakingly dumb allegation”, “almost unbearably stupid”, and “so self-evidently lacking in merit”.The Washington City paper issued its own response in a published editorial, saying, "But we at "City Paper" take accusations of anti-Semitism seriously—in part because many of us are Jewish, including staffers who edited the story and designed the cover.So let us know, Mr. Snyder, when you want to fight the "real" anti-Semites."