Clearly we are all filthy anti-semites

[Hitcher]

The response from our Israeli friend in this morning's paper is, quite frankly, predictable and pathetic.

Jews, blondes, gingas, Irish, Catholics, Maoris, disabled people all find themselves the butt of jokes from time to time. Where this humour has no malice, surely there is no crime? Particularly if it's bloody funny.

[Swoop]

But when you meet them when out travelling, I have never encountered a group which so consistently have behaved in an arrogant and aloof manner. Ask the next hostel owner you meet about stories about bikers - I'm sure they'll have more than a few.

Hmm, Seems the same, yet slightly different...

Public perception 'n' all.

[MisterD]

He's probably just upset that because we've got the Maoris, the Jews don't have a monopoly on the greivance industry.

[koba]

I generally don't like Israelis TBQH. Nothing to do with their religion or whether they were subjected to hardship during the war... Nothing to do with how the conflict in the middleeast is subtly tied into Israel...

But when you meet them when out travelling, I have never encountered a group which so consistently have behaved in an arrogant and aloof manner. Ask the next hostel owner you meet about stories about Israelis - I'm sure they'll have more than a few.


...and just for the record, I don't like Nazis either...

The rudest people I ever met tramping were Israelis.
They didn't bring any food, they went around the hut and begged food from other trampers.
They followed our family group and stopped when we stopped for chocolate breaks, even though we finally asked them not to.
They shit right beside the track and didn't bury it or cover it.
They didn't pay any hut fees even when they were challenged about it by a hut warden and other trampers.

I hear Danes can be similar but I would hate to stereotype...... guess it just depends on the individual.

Seriously tho, I say just let them wallow in their own self pity.

[Sanx]

That's the problem with Jews generally; absolutely no sense of humour when it comes to people taking the piss out of their piss-ant religion.

And the New Zealand Jewish Council chairman, Geoff Levy, is no exception. He has absolutely no tolerance for anyone who dares say anything negative about Jews / Israel (to him they're one and the same), even if it is obviously a piss-take. And this is despite him having watched both his sons progressively (one more progressively than the other) join the lunatic orthodox fringe of Judaism causing much hurt for him. his wife and other families.

He's a lawyer that always expresses his admiration for British common law and the due processes that form part of it; and by inheritance, New Zealand law. But he's entirely in favour of Israel's policy of carrying out extra-judicial executions of anybody they suspect of being a terrorist. Logic and religion don't mix...

How do I know all of this? He's my uncle. In the seven years I lived in NZ, I saw more of this crap than most people. Protests and complaints every time someone said or did something the Jewish Anti-Defamation League or Jewish Council or B'nai Brith didn't like. From cartoons in The Harold to TVNZ broadcasting a BBC documentary written by (I think) Robert Fisk which the NZ Jewish group felt didn't portray a balanced viewpoint (and by balanced, they mean nothing critical of Israel).

But then, I shouldn't be surprised. Jewish groups around the world never have a sense of humour. You only have to look at the comments from one US-based Jewish pressure group after the Borat movie was released. They accused the writer, one Sascha Baron Cohen of being blatantly anti-semitic...

[imdying]

Gas is the best way to cook.... after all, 14 million Jews can't be wrong

[avgas]

bah like Jews now how to laugh anywho.
changing the joke for them telling Billy T he is racist........take away to good parts will you

[Mikkel]

I wasn't aware there was a swastika ascii character - the tag kinda suggests it though.

Gas is the best way to cook.... after all, 14 million Jews can't be wrong

'Only' 9-11 million according to Wikipedia.

That is of course - if holocaust indeed ever happened

[sosman]

Im not Racist!....I think everyone should own one

[Ixion]

Im not a racist. I watch them occasionally, especially Paeroa and the classics, but I've never been interested in being a racist my self.

I am a tourist though, cos I own a toiuring bike.

[Big Dave]

They accused the writer, one Sascha Baron Cohen of being blatantly anti-semitic...

Not all Cohens are jewish. my old man was C of E and I'm slightly to the right of Genghis Kahn.

[SpankMe]

I wasn't aware there was a swastika ascii character

Microsoft removed it when twats complained, so to be really PC, they removed the star of david too. Chinese fonts have it thou.

[Pedrostt500]

Joseph Stalin did it better 20 million.

Gas is the best way to cook.... after all, 14 million Jews can't be wrong

[CookMySock]

That's the problem with Jews generally; absolutely no sense of humour when it comes to people taking the piss out of their piss-ant religion.

They have had a tough time though, and it is fair that they are still sensitive about it. Thats going to wreck their self-esteem for many many years.

But as I said earlier, they choose to come here and be part of our culture, so they can suck it up - Its the kiwi way to take the piss in the friendly non-nasty manner, and mean nothing by it. Process it, boys and girls.

DB

[imdying]

Im not Racist!....I think everyone should own one

I think it goes "I've nothing against niggers, every home should have one."

I recommend this site to the our Jewish friends. Then they can rest easy that it's not just them who get the mick taken out of them. Find an ethnicity that's missing from that list, I dare ya!