their comedy is equally distasteful.

Using the word "kike" as he does is insulting. This is another sign of the growing antisemitism which is abetted by some hip "new" Jews.  

 

Their hatred of Israel is well known.

Kastner's "Do you want to blame me for Israel?"  is another antisemitic quip.

 

I am a proud Kike and you can blame Israel on me. If Israel didn't exist I'd be working to create it all over again in the homeland of the Jews.

No, I will not be watching.  Obviously, the man is entitled to say any stupid thing he likes.  It could be artistically interesting, but, is it good for the Jews?  Yes, I know it's the same old question.  But let's look at the African American experience.  Obviously, you can't blame gangster rap for everything.  That said, allowing the N-word and exaggerated stereotypes of black male violence and sexuality to permeate their popular culture has undoubtedly made racism worse, not better.  It's a lot easier to demonize Tupac Shakur than Grandma Moses. Once you start letting kike enter common parlance, or making movies like "Keeping up with the Steins," well, the genie's out of the bottle.  It doesn't matter that Baron Cohen is lampooning anti-semitism.  He's still allowing people to feel comfortable expressing it out in the open, when they might have felt ashamed enough to keep their mouths shut otherwise.

 BTW, I'm thinking one of his parents is Jewish.  Maybe he only gets to say Ki.

Well, the second half was -- I missed the first half.  But from what I saw, Kastner talks about Jewish identity in a way that should actually resonate with young ambivalent Jews.  He's not nostalgic, and he's not preachy, just genuinely curious about what it means to be Jewish.  OK, to put it better: you know how when someone uses the phrase "what it means to be Jewish" your eyes glaze over, even if you're, like, a Jewish studies PhD candidate, because at this point in history nobody seems to agree on what it DOES mean and yet all sorts of groups invoke it all the time to serve their own purposes?  Kastner somehow makes that question fresh again. 

i thought he seemed like a total douche.  in a way that made me think "hey, you know what?  my kids are fully attending hardcore jewish day school, just so they won't be ignorant douches like this guy.  and if they want to *reject* what they learn, cool.  but how can you reject or embrace if you have NO INFORMATION?"  basically.  and his nasal drone made the terrible voice-over observations even more grating.  

meanwhile, over on HBO, munich was showing.  and ten minutes of tony kushner's dialogue told a deeper, more interesting story about what it means to be "jewish" than kastner's whole shtick.  

laaaaaaame. 

Another screwed up child of intermarriage disrespecting Judaism.  Kaster should've have done a film titled "Goy like Me" which would've have suited him better.

Kastner doesn't talk about Judaism. With very few exceptions, he talks about anti-Semitism, dead Jews, and the memory of Jews in places where they are absent.

I wish he had spent a little more of his vacation video exploring Judaism through a prism other than anti-Semitism and genocide, but by defining Judaism by these criteria, he showed that he's actually much more "typically Jewish" than he might care to admit.

couldn't actually sit through the whole thing, though, so maybe he got smarter, funnier, and a better grasp of his subject's deep complexities in the second half. he's cute, though! i can see how he'd get a lot of fix-up offers. behold! the end of the jewish people will be televised.

I read lots of comments pages ranging from snarky to hypersnarky (gawker media, tmz, etc.) I tripped onto this website (damn you slate) and felt compelled to say this...jesus, I thought the evangelicals were fucked up. this site answers the "are jews genetically smarter?" question very nicely.

  

Let's see...

by Reform Standards, his ancestry passes, but without a Jewish education, he is not Jewish.

by Conservative or Othodoxy standards,  he is not Jewish, as he has neither a Jewish mother nor a kosher conversion.

by
Hitler's standards, which, I have to assume, is the standard which
interests him, since his criteria is anti-semetism, not Judaism, he is
Jewish.

So, in conclusion, he was created by and for the
promulation of anti-semetism... and he is doing what he was created to
do... with the help of his friends in the BBC.