If I respond with an example from my own life, who wins the anecdotal war?
Mockery is not always rooted in anger. Anecdotes certainly can demonstrate this. If you provide an anecdote demonstrating that sometimes mocking IS rooted in anger, you haven't disproved my point at all.
Nobody seemed to really answer my question as to whether it would be reasonable to mock living persons and the liturgy of local Jews -- anonymous hit pieces against your local synogogue. What they wear to service, their devotion, their holy days, what the wear on ordinary days?
Yes, they did.
If the local Jews were a dominant group in the area, and their belief system entailed several assertions that were fundamentally insulting or belittling to those who do not accept their claims, or once accepted and now rejected those claims, and felt free to openly express those insulting or belittling beliefs, if they taught that those who rejected their claims were inspired by satan and would be punished by God in some way, if certain beliefs or habits could be reasonably seen as ridiculous, bizarre, and disconnected to reality, then it would be reasonable for individuals subjected to these teachings to mock them in return.
Of course, this doesn't describe the vast majority of Jews, if any. I haven't studied Judaism, so I'm just guessing, but I suppose some of it could apply to the most conservative, literal form of Judaism. For example, if conservative Jews were dominant in an area and openly presented their beliefs about not touching a menstrual woman in a public manner and stated that those who mock these beliefs mock God and will be punished by God, then I believe it would be reasonable for the minority to mock those beliefs.
To relate it to the example I offered from my own life, if the Jewish community funded several large billboards reminding people not to touch menstruating women else suffer the wrath of God (if that is their belief), I would say they would be begging to be mocked by nonbelievers who are sick of having strange beliefs paraded in the cartman police uniform thrust in their faces.
I clearly stated above that simply because a behavior, belief, or statement is cloaked in the cartman police uniform of religion does not mean that it automatically deserves some respect, and those who refuse to bestow such respect are labeled "bigots".