Clearly we are all filthy anti-semites

[riffer]

The fuckers make martyrs of themselves at every opportunity. Almost as embarrassing as the Maoris.

Would that be the Scottish or the Jews? It's tough for me being Latvian Jew on one side and Scottish on the other.

Just interested to know which part of me you're trying to offend.

[Shadows]

Would that be the Scottish or the Jews? It's tough for me being Latvian Jew on one side and Scottish on the other.

Just interested to know which part of me you're trying to offend.

Fuck it. Must try harder.

Could be worse though. At least you're not part Hori as well.

[Street Gerbil]

It isn't racist at all. Jewism (or whatever they want to fucking call it) is a religion, not a race.

Oh. Pray tell, does it make me a Tunguse or a Native American?

But, I will ask you , do you consider the joke, below, about the Scotch, to be equally objectionable? It too pokes fun at a particular race.

And if you do not, why not?

Because in your own words "It [...] pokes fun at a particular race"
If the original billboard was saying "Our prices are so low that even a Jew would agree he's got a bargain", I would call it bad taste. The one I am upset with is not a bad taste. It is dehumanizing.

I remember Culloden, and the clearances. The Scotch got over it.

Have you ever heard "it is a shame that Cumberland hasn't finished off you vermin"? I heard that regarding Hitler and Jews for the first time when I was five. I will "get over it" when I am certain that the world has overgrown a desire to declare the whole ethnicity not worthy of existence. Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime, unfortunately.

My issue is with Dor Shapira asserting that a poorly thought out advertising campaign reflects "a repugnant and negative mindset [in] the culture and political environment in New Zealand." I would like to see the research he has done to back this up. I would suggest he is engaging in the stereotyping he proports to abhor

I just came across a letter to the editor published in yesterday's Herald, saying that "rather than an insult to Jews, the ad is an insult to all decent New Zealanders". Are you saying that an average Joe Bloggs shares this sentiment and the rest is just a bunch of bad apples? If yes, I have to agree with your statement about stereotyping.

[Ixion]

Fuck it. Must try harder.

Could be worse though. At least you're not part Hori as well.

Oi. Watch it, I'm part hori. Next thing I suppose you'll be poking the borak at the geordies. Ain't nowhere further down to go once you reach them. Except the spics of course , but they don't even rank mention

Can y'guess some of the other parts of m' ancestry. Mixed pickles, decidedly mixed pickles.

[Shadows]

Oi. Watch it, I'm part hori. Next thing I suppose you'll be poking the borak at the geordies.

Awwww shit, don't get me started...

[MisterD]

my grandfather was excommunicated from the Jewish church in Wellington for the crime of marrying an English woman.

Was that crime in the eyes of the Jewish faith, or just typical Kiwi pom-bashing?

[MisterD]

No, regardless of what you say about taking a piss, that was uncalled for. Very much so. Have courage to admit it. Let me ask you a question, if the ad were to say "we'll do business with everybody, even negroes", would you choose to be a patron of this business? I dare you.

Frankly, I don't think many people would have batted an eyelid, other than those whose job is to get all upset about such things. The point is, that this advert is for a TV program set in the 1960's when such sentiments were common - I thought that was perfectly obvious context.

If there's one interesting thing this saga shows, it's how similar the Arabs and Jews really are when it comes to being professionally touchy (hat tip:Pat Condell) it must be something to do with the desert heat. But then strictly speaking "Semitic" refers to Arabs, Jews, Phonecians...not just followers of the first Abrahamic faith.

[Dave Lobster]

Have you ever heard "it is a shame that Cumberland hasn't finished off you vermin"? I heard that regarding Hitler and Jews for the first time when I was five. I will "get over it" when I am certain that the world has overgrown a desire to declare the whole ethnicity not worthy of existence. Ain't gonna happen in my lifetime, unfortunately.

Don't jews stop and have a think about WHY there is such wide sentiment for this?

[James Deuce]

The Celts had a much harder time of it.

I think I should start getting offended at ginga, Welsh, Basque, Irish, and Scots jokes, and any joke containing a knot.

[Flatcap]

I just came across a letter to the editor published in yesterday's Herald, saying that "rather than an insult to Jews, the ad is an insult to all decent New Zealanders". Are you saying that an average Joe Bloggs shares this sentiment and the rest is just a bunch of bad apples? If yes, I have to agree with your statement about stereotyping.

Yes I would say that.

It is also an insult to New Zealand comedians -the 'humour' was poorly executed, lame and obvious. A small child could think up a catchier punchline.

[Street Gerbil]

Don't jews stop and have a think about WHY there is such wide sentiment for this?

Oh, I know exactly why it is happening. I've been trying to tell you all along.

[Dave Lobster]

No. The dehumanisation is what you think is the result of everyone else having a thing about jews.

My question (which you seem to have missed the point of) is WHY do you think that people have something against them?

You must have done something to deserve it.

[Street Gerbil]

You must have done something to deserve it.

Please, enlighten me, where did we misstep to raise such an ire of people like you?

[Dave Lobster]

Please, enlighten me, where did we misstep to raise such an ire of people like you?

By harping on about all the bad things that have happened to the jewish people. The CONSTANT tirade of feel sorry for us, the nazis killed loads of our familes. The massaging of the figures..

But most of all, you organised the hanging of people at Dachau only because they were members of the SS. As an ex member of the forces, it disgusts me that people would be hanged purely because of the unit they were in.

Edit.. And another thing.. The It shouldn't be allowed to happen again sentiment. It's happening now, in Africa. Why doesn't israel do something about it, to stop it happening? It has an army.. it has the money (thanks to america).. it has the tanks, etc. Or is it more of a It shouldn't be allowed to happen to usagain sentiment?

[Big Dave]

The Celts had a much harder time of it.

I think I should start getting offended at ginga, Welsh, Basque, Irish, and Scots jokes, and any joke containing a knot.

This piece of string walks into a bar....