Have you heard the one about the Jews?

[OrechDin]

Jamie Glassman

As a writer on The Ali G Show I can do insulting jokes. But the anti-Jewish sentiment at Edinburgh is shocking


THERE’S NOTHING I like more than a Jewish joke. It’s the anti-Jewish ones I’m not so keen on.
Wandering through the streets of Edinburgh during the world’s largest arts festival, you never know what sight or sound you will be bombarded with next. Half-naked men on 6ft stilts meander by, half-naked girls rush to sell you their show, troops of Japanese acrobats tumble past. But I wasn’t prepared for the verbal assault I got when I wandered into a comedy gig this week.

There have always been anti- Semitic jokes. But you know times are changing when you go along to a stand-up show at the Pleasance Courtyard at the Edinburgh Fringe and you hear audience members shouting “Throw them in the oven” when the comic suggests kids should stop playing Cowboys and Indians and replace it with Nazis and Jews.

Stand-up comedy is as good a prism as any through which to look at the changing attitudes in our society. If my past few days are anything to go by then it is becoming increasingly acceptable to hate the Jews. Again.



http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2312891,00.html

[Behind the Aegis]

1. What year is this?!

I see stories like this...and I get sick to my stomach.

Did you cross post this in GD? If not, you should. Modern day bigotry should be shown for what it really is...alive and thriving in the hearts of minds of the peoples of the world!

[OrechDin]

3. OK done... posted in GD nt

[rockymountaindem]

4. The thread in GD is turning out just how I expected

People who claim that criticism of Israel is not necessarily anti-Semitism (a true claim) are immediately conflating real anti-Semitism with Israel. So, the people who say Israel does not equal anti-Semitism are undermining their own case. Nice.

See why we need to leave this site? It's full of hypocritical jackasses.

[rockymountaindem]

2. Yes, you should definately post this in GD

I wonder how many people will try to defend it.

[voter x]

5. ...Yawn....

the same tired dialogue, over and over....

:banghead: