I’m sure somebody could have wrote a positive portrayal of the conditions of Jews in Nazi Germany as late as the last days before Kristallnacht in 1938. You could have said that there was anger at some outside organization but none against individual Jews and be no more a fool as NY Times columnist Roger Cohen in his puff-piece on Iran and its treatment of Iranian Jews.
Jeffery Goldberg and Richard Z. Chesnoff also have opinions on the accuracy of Cohen's statements.